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 ...

Some of Conservative Judaism’s top leaders found little to criticize within their own movement when they gathered together December 7 for a panel discussion on the future direction of their troubled ...

(RNS) — As antisemitism, Zionism and Judaism continue making daily headlines, I frequently find myself in conversations about what it means to be Jewish. The conflict in Gaza has generated a slurry of ...

One of the most striking findings in the recent Pew Research Center survey on Jews in America is the massive decline of Conservative Judaism. While 43% of American Jews affiliated as Conservative Jews ...

Modern society often speaks about universal values; human rights, equality, justice, the sanctity of life, as if they emerged naturally through human progress or Enlightenment thinking. In reality, ...

“Can there be a history of a slave?” When Isaak Markus Jost asked this question, in the introduction to his “General History of the Israelite People,” published in 1832, it was by no means clear that ...

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 ...

Yonatan Adler posits a convincing thesis, tightly and compellingly argued, that widespread observance of Pentateuchal legislation by Judeans—or what we now call Judaism—emerged no earlier than the ...

(RNS) — When you die, timing is everything. For example: If someone dies on Shabbat, that person might be a particularly righteous individual. That is what the Zohar, the cardinal work of Jewish ...

In 2020, various Jewish progressives organized a tendentious campaign of statements, articles, and even rallies insisting that Judaism permits—indeed, demands—unfettered abortion. I observed then that ...

When I moved to Cali, Colombia, in 2003, to follow my businessman boyfriend, it was one of the most violent cities in Latin America, besieged by drug cartels. I felt lost, unnerved and out of place.