Essentials of Judaism stands as a significant contribution to Jewish educational literature. It is comprehensive without being cumbersome, scholarly without being inaccessible, and traditional without ...

Understanding what makes Judaism and Jewish civilization different and seeing if it can explain Jew-hatred in Christianity and Islam. What makes Judaism different from all other religions? And does ...

(RNS) — A New York City conference considers the future of Reform Judaism.

From gender roles to religious authority, American-trained leaders transformed key debates in Israeli Judaism.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two thousand years ago, Jews were divided between competing sects all based on the Jewish scriptures, but with different ...

Judaism, like many ancient cultural and spiritual traditions, sees itself as the bearer of a sacred legacy—a divine inheritance rooted in covenant, memory, and mission. This self-understanding is not ...

At the core of personal trauma there is often a loss of faith in life’s order and stability. When faced with a crisis, some people turn to religion. Others turn to artistic expression. David Gelernter ...

Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster and the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Rowan Williams, discuss the poetry of Robert ...

A new musical traces the origins of Reform Judaism to a question that, on paper, seems more likely to produce a subcommittee ...

Speaking to a class at one of America’s major rabbinical seminaries, I once remarked in passing that “Judaism is built on the idea that God loves us and beckons us to love God back.” Seemingly ...

(JTA) — Days after Hebrew Union College graduated its final rabbinical class in Cincinnati, a new Jewish seminary has its ...

The new College for Contemporary Judaism, run by former HUC faculty and board members, asked a judge to let it run the closed ...