Religion & Holidays
What happens when an Ashkenazi rabbi leads a Sephardi synagogue during the Days of Awe? A profound encounter with new moods in Jewish life.
The idea of martyrdom is an uncomfortable one for Jews. Yet respect for religious self-sacrifice finds its very origins among them, as I saw on Mount Herzl this summer.
A rabbi and historian explores how rabbis and Jewish liturgy will mark the destruction of October 7 now and in the future.
That’s the argument of a new book by the rabbi Shai Held. It doesn’t quite hold up.
Ashlag’s ladder to the Zohar.
As religion in America declines, the toll on the nation’s clergy can be immense.
The author of “The Anguished Dilemma of a Reform Rabbi” explains his opposition to a recent blockbuster change in Reform policy.
In honor of Shavuot, the Jewish holiday that celebrates lawgiving, a discussion about the essence of Jewish law.
Discussing the contention that “civilization” came into the drama of human history with God’s covenantal promise to Abraham and his children.
It was only in the early-to-mid first millennium BCE that both the ancient Babylonians and the ancient Hebrews began dividing their lunar months into seven-day periods.
The well-known rabbi looks at the link between freedom and monotheism in the the text accompanying the seder service.
The truth of the tale of Hillel and the “Hillel sandwich.”
Technologies have radically changed religions in the past. But that doesn’t mean they’ll do so this time.
Jews can help the wider world fight the excesses of artificial intelligence, but in order to do so they need to learn how to speak about such matters in a language non-Jews understand.