I am talking to a friend of mine about his experience on various dating sites. He tells me that from time to time, he will come across a profile that seems promising. And then, right there in the ...

God’s personal name appears 6,823 times in Scripture. A new book explores what it means — and why it still matters today. In an age of religious confusion, the greatest need is simple: to know the ...

A couple of years ago, I attended a Friday night Shabbat service at a little shul in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The space was heimish. The community was welcoming. The melodies were soulful. But when ...

For a Christian, reading this book is like taking an introductory language course. You may not learn to speak the new language fluently, but in the process of studying it you discover a great deal ...

A JTA essay on “fictionalism” describes a worldview incapable of surviving more than a few generations, writes Rabbi Warren Goldstein. “It’s just what we Jews do,” Hershovitz explains. “[I]t keeps me ...

It’s not easy getting teens to think about God. Even if they go to Jewish day school. When one Jewish educational organization asked day school students in middle school and high school several years ...

(The Conversation) — The festival of Shavuot, marked this year on June 5 and 6, celebrates the biblical story of God revealing Torah – Jewish scriptures and teachings – to the Israelites at Mount ...

While Purim commemorates the attempted genocide of the Jewish people two millennia ago, it also reminds us that, even at ...