Source: Times of Israel The Talmud is mystified too: “Cleopatra the queen asked Rebbi Meir, ‘I can understand that dead people can be brought back to life, but will I come back with my clothes on or without them?’” No fashionista like Cleopatra would want to be brought back to […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor According to tradition, Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is the“birthday of the universe,” the day that God finished the great work […]
Source: New York Times By SAMANTHA STARK, ALEXANDRA GARCIA, PAMELA DRUCKERMAN and MANUAL CINEMA STUDIOS | Oct. 2, 2016 | 16:21 As a teenager, saved thousands of lives by forging […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor American and Israeli Jews have much more than an ocean dividing them. Four out of five Jews in the world live […]
Source: Times of Israel “Mr. Trump acknowledged that Jerusalem has been the eternal capital of the Jewish People for over 3,000 years, and that the United States, under a Trump administration, will finally accept the long-standing Congressional mandate to recognize Jerusalem as the undivided capital of the State of Israel,” […]
Source: Muslim Sunrise, Fall 2016 volume Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The planet earth with its circumference of25,000 miles with a population […]
Source: Smart News By Danny lewis By now, the six-pointed star feels inseparable from Jewish identity. So when presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump tweeted out an image of Hillary Clinton with […]
Source: Associated Press By DANIELLA CHESLOW JERUSALEM (AP) — The president of America’s Union for Reform Judaism blasted the Israeli government Monday for delaying a plan to give liberal Jews a special space to pray at a Jerusalem holy site, and vowed to escalate his movement’s struggle with public demonstrations […]
Source: The Washington Post The country must be held accountable for its human rights abuses. By Rebecca Vilkomerson; who is the executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace. In 2009, […]
Source: The New York Times By ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM — Critics of Israel’s chief rabbinate have long complained that scores of American converts to Judaism have trouble getting approval to […]
Tribune: When the 9/11 attacks occurred in the US, I had just begun teaching at the American University in Washington, DC as the new Chair of Islamic studies. As the scale of what had happened became apparent, I knew how important fostering dialogue and communication between Islam and other religions […]
Source: The Guardian By Giles Fraser The walled neighbourhood of Mea Shearim is just a few minutes’ walk from the old city of Jerusalem. Built in 1874, it is home to […]
Source: Guardian By Giles Fraser The continuing rejection of modern Zionism by some ultra-orthodox Jews disrupts the argument that anti-Zionism is always antisemitism The walled neighbourhood of Mea Shearim is […]
Source: The Washington Post By Susan Sommercamp My first boss right out of college was terrific — ambitious, warm and open to friendly lunches outside the office. Then one day in December, the topic turned to her plans for Christmas. She asked where I would be celebrating the holiday, and […]
Source: Pew Research Center American Jews overwhelmingly say they are proud to be Jewish and have a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people, according to a major new […]
Source: PRI By Kristian Foden-Vencil Rabbi Michael Cahana tells him to dip the baby completely underwater for her mikveh — that is, her conversion to Judaism. Amir and his husband, Ilan, […]
Source: The New York Times By Lisa Goldman A contributing editor and co-founder of +972 Magazine, a Tel Aviv-based digital magazine. UPDATED APRIL 4, 2016, 3:20 AM Zionism is a political ideology. It is not a religion. But for Jewish-Americans, more so than ever for Jews in Israel, Zionism is a […]
Source: The New York Times When the University of California regents condemned “anti-Semitic forms of anti-Zionism,” supporters of Palestinian rights said the university was suppressing criticism of Israel. In New York, […]
Book Review:Putting God Second: How to Save Religion from Itself Source: Amazon Why have the monotheistic religions failed to produce societies that live up to their ethical ideals? A prominent […]
Source: Swissinfo.ch Political and media debates on religion in Switzerland focus mainly on Muslims and Islam. But the country also has many people of Hindu, Jewish and Sikh faith. What […]