This week’s Torah portion, Mishpatim, represents the first extensive listing of laws given by God to the Israelites through Moses. In many ways, it can be seen as an expansion ...

(RNS) — 'If Jewish identity is built only on shared trauma,' said the Australian rabbi who led Chabad of Bondi, 'then we hand ...

The mitzvah of honoring one's parents is not a narrow religious demand but a foundational moral duty.

Orit Avishai receives funding from Fordham University, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, the Association for the Sociology of Religion, the Society for the ...

Our Judaism is broadly defined as the collective historical experience of the Jewish people – a widely and wildly diverse experience that has helped foster our extraordinary resilience. For a long ...

A secular Jew asked me why I was converting to Judaism. Why would a rational, educated woman choose to join an ancient people and embrace traditions that seem to belong to another age? Did I truly ...

Judaism is a culture and tradition, no less than a religion. You can come to prayer at the synagogue on Friday, but arrive by car. You can celebrate Hanukkah and celebrate Christmas. The connection to ...

When Liangda Hu first tried doing Daf Yomi, the practice of studying a page of Talmud per day, he struggled to read it. Hu found the language of English Talmud translations uniquely archaic and, as ...

Judaism doesn't come from God, it comes from the Jews - and the rest is commentary. Rabbi Richard Hirsh: Reconstructionism Today, Winter 2004-5 ...the branch of Judaism least tied to the past and most ...

Josh Kalms, people and wildlife officer for Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust, explores how two ideas from Jewish teachings reflect conservation principles ...