Prayer and action cultivate gratitude, writes ritualist, musician, healer and teacher Kohenet Rabbi Sarah Bracha Gershuny.

Last week’s International Criminal Court’s arrest warrants against the leaders of the Jewish state resemble efforts of ...

The killing of Rabbi Zvi Kogan, an Israeli-Moldovan resident of Abu Dhabi, has left the UAE’s Jewish community on edge.

In contrast to religions that emphasize moral degradation, Judaism encourages admitting guilt and regret as a way of ...

In this novel, which was adopted from author Shorr’s unrealized screenplay, Abe Katz, a civil engineer, was imprisoned after ...

The group, with five chapters across the U.S., believes observant Jews have a particular obligation to oppose what they see ...

Hillel draws one very simple line in terms of acceptable forms of Judaism: One person’s expression of Judaism cannot deny another’s.

After stepping down as chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary in the spring of 2020, Arnold Eisen found himself with the time and motivation to think about a big question ...

A rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been murdered in a “heinous terror incident”, the Israeli government ...

Parallel to expanding Zionist activity among America’s Conservative Jews was the effort to establish a Conservative Jewish presence in Israel.

Three years have passed since I posted two prior essays in the TOI, arguing that the steady decline of Conservative Judaism was at least partially due to a doctrinaire approach to halacha that has ...

The same book presents religions differently, stating “Judaism believes that violence and war are sometimes necessary to promote justice,” while describing Islam as “in favor of peace and against ...