People, leadership, and land are the three foundations of the Jewish nation; understanding how each of these pillars ...

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 ...

Judaism, like many ancient cultural and spiritual traditions, sees itself as the bearer of a sacred legacy—a divine inheritance rooted in covenant, memory, and mission. This self-understanding is not ...

At the core of personal trauma there is often a loss of faith in life’s order and stability. When faced with a crisis, some people turn to religion. Others turn to artistic expression. David Gelernter ...

Our Judaism is broadly defined as the collective historical experience of the Jewish people – a widely and wildly diverse experience that has helped foster our extraordinary resilience. For a long ...

Tribe: An aggregate of people united by a shared story Tribalism: Mistaking story as history in service to the elevation of one tribe over all others Written by Rabbi Rami Shapiro, one of today’s most ...

In recent times, even within the Reform Jewish movement, a fortunately very small fringe of non-Zionist or openly ...

An article looking at Liberal Judaism, including information about the ideas and philosophies of Liberal Jews, worship, customs and identity. Liberal Judaism, as the name suggests, is a progressive ...

Hebrew Union College, the oldest Jewish seminary in the United States, was established in 1875 in Cincinnati by the founder of Reform Judaism in North America. The college has other campuses, but its ...

Speaking to a class at one of America’s major rabbinical seminaries, I once remarked in passing that “Judaism is built on the idea that God loves us and beckons us to love God back.” Seemingly ...

What to Know About Reform Judaism After an Attack on One of Its Largest US Synagogues The Michigan synagogue that came under attack Thursday is part of Reform Judaism, the largest branch of the ...