The College for Contemporary Judaism pledges to fill a role soon to be vacated by the Reform movement’s historic midwest ...

(RNS) — You know when people list their relationship status on Facebook as “it’s complicated”? For many Jews, this phrase defines their relationship with their Jewish identity. While our relationship ...

Tribe: An aggregate of people united by a shared story Tribalism: Mistaking story as history in service to the elevation of one tribe over all others Written by Rabbi Rami Shapiro, one of today’s most ...

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 ...

Reconstructionist Judaism, wrote the Jewish sociologist Charles Liebman almost 60 years ago, “comes closer than any other movement or school of thought to articulating the meaning of Judaism for Ameri ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost exactly seven years after a presidential candidate stopped referring to “Pharisees” in response to allegations of antisemitism, another prominent political Pete has invoked the term.

Most Jews see marriage as an important and necessary part of life. Judaism also has the mechanism for divorce when needed and the opportunity for remarriage. Judaism teaches that humans have been ...

I recently attended an interfaith conference in Rome, where an unnamed Jewish Professor startled the audience by declaring: ...

Mordecai Kaplan’s dream of a Jewish civilization built on choice and fulfillment faces the reality of modern challenges in ...