(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 ...

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 thought of Carl Jung helped me learn the distinction between the God one might believe in versus the gods that are operating within us. To know that a person believes in the idea of God of Judaism ...

"Judaism is a complicated belief. It is a combination of religious and societal. It calls for improvement of the world and helping your fellow man." Reflecting on his faith, Ernest Fruehaf, of Munster ...

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 ...

This audacious exploration of the Jewish concept of God squarely faces many contradictions and conundrums. Gillman, a professor of Jewish philosophy at Jewish Theological Seminary, won the National ...

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 ...

Right at the outset of the Aseret Hadibrot or Ten Declarations (commonly translated as the Ten Commandments), God declares, “I am the Lord your God Who took you out of the Land of Egypt” (Exodus 20:2) ...

The teaching of both Islam and Judaism is that an evil thought only becomes sinful when it results in evil behavior. But humans do need to be limited by societal and religious restrictions. Examples ...

To be a Jew, as often as not, means little more than sharing a common stock of habits and lore: bagels and gefüllte fish, wistful jokes about schlemiels, the struggle against discrimination in country ...

The thinking of Carl Jung helped me learn the distinction between the God one might believe in versus the gods that are operating within us. To know that a person believes in the idea of God of ...