Why would a rational, educated woman choose to join an ancient people and embrace traditions that seem to belong to another age?

Tomorrow night, along with Jews across America and around the world, I’ll be heading to my synagogue to begin observing Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. For most of my life, I attended ...

Both Goldstein and Jewish tradition recognize that the need to matter can become destructive. The person desperate for ...

(RNS) — Judaism has always been open to what the world is learning and saying. It has fallen to every generation of Jews to determine how much openness is necessary, and how much is too much. That's ...

As rabbis, we come to this conversation out of love — love for our communities, our families and the sacred gift of life itself. And we come with a plea: help us, and our loved ones, live and die with ...

Rosner’s book was written primarily for non-practicing Jews perplexed by Judaism in general and by apparent contradictions between Jewish and Western values in particular. Tel Aviv-based researcher, ...

When the Third Temple is built in Jerusalem, should there be a mosque next door? May gentiles keep Shabbat? And should Jews teach Torah to members of different faiths? In a new book, three Israeli ...

Converts to Judaism are often treated as rare exceptions — surprised looks, intrusive questions, comments like “who’s the lucky girl.” Yet conversion is no anomaly. It is now more common than at any ...