By: Yossi Ginzberg | 2010-05-29 | Religion Yom Kippur is generally considered to be the holiest day of the year on the Jewish calendar. I think it would be more correct to call it the most solemn day of the Jewish year. The Jewish New Year is the polar opposite of the secular one. read more
By: Jacob Lumbroso | 2010-12-12 | Religion Of all the Jewish thinkers that arose in the twentieth century, none stands out as revolutionary and as controversial as Mordecai Kaplan. read more
By: Jacob Lumbroso | 2010-12-24 | Religion The differences between the Sephardim and Ashkenazim are traced to the different social, religious, economic, political, geographic, and even ethnic influences existent in each of these communities. The differences are too numerous to enumerate in detail. read more
By: David Brown | 2010-06-03 | Religion . The Jewish People are considered God''s Chosen People and without Him, how can there be Judaism ? I read more
By: Jacob Lumbroso | 2010-12-20 | Reference & Education spirituality. The first deals with the allegation that traditional Judaism excessively concerns itself with read more
By: Leah Chanan | 2010-06-02 | Religion They stared after her as she made her way carefully through a crowd of rambunctious children dashing to and fro in the tiny courtyard sandwiched between somewhat shabby apartment buildings. She certainly wasn''t a local resident of this ultra- orthodox neighborhood. read more
By: Michael Newman | 2009-10-08 | History around Jerusalem, the site of the Temple. Judaism , the religion that evolves in this period, demands read more
By: John Devera | 2010-06-03 | Religion Christianity begins as a Jewish cult. The first converts to Christianity were Jewish. The leader of this new religion was Jewish. Jesus was born, lived and died as a Jew. His name was Yeshua. read more
By: Yossi Ginzberg | 2010-05-31 | Religion There''s a famous old Yiddish adage frequently used in discussions about Halacha (Jewish religious law) that says, "As you ask the question, so you will get the answer", implying that asking a skewed question will lead to a predictable and expected answer. read more
By: Jacob Lumbroso | 2009-09-09 | Kabbalah One approach adopted by some Jewish communities in dealing with the outside world is the particularistic position which embraces the view that Jewish thinking has its own native categories; read more