For decades, I maintained a status quo of living like a Jew without being one. When I finally pursued conversion, I ...

As the existential threat to Judaism has shifted from antisemitism to Israel-bashing and anti-Zionism, many American Jews ...

“Articles of Faith” is a vital text for anyone interested in the complexities of Orthodox Judaism today as it faces a future ...

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Hanukkah last fell on Christmas Day in 2005. Before that, it occurred in 1959 and 1921. It will not happen again until 2035.

What began as a collaboration over food between Congregation Sinai and the Turkish-American Society of Wisconsin has evolved ...

Conservative/Masorti Judaism’s first official representative to the World Zionist Organization, Rabbi Joseph Wernik, ...

Secular Jews, use religious practices to boost your Jewish identities, despite your lack of faith, for Judaism is too important to leave to the religious ...

This time it was a Kaddish for Judaism itself. I grew up in a small town in central Israel, in a classic “dati leumi” or national religious community whose ideology combines Zionism and ...

the revolutionary groups, Sicarii and the Zealots and whatnot, who took their religious understanding of what Judaism was, took their religious interpretations and turned that into a political agenda.

When did Judaism as we know it today—devoted to one God and the teachings of the Torah—really take root? How did the religious practices of the earliest Israelites differ from Judaism?