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 he’d long put off as ...

In 1915, a Christian minister spoke at a Jewish funeral in Tupper Lake, New York. The synagogue is now celebrating its 120th ...

Every summer, the primary holiday segment of the Jewish calendar focuses on the story of our separation, or divorce, from God. Can God really decide to divorce us, the children of Israel? According to ...

“Where is God?” someone called out. “This is where,” Weisel said in his heart. “Hanging here from this gallows …” The question, “Where is God?” is the central question posed to us by the Holocaust, by ...

Jewish liturgy can feel archaic or demanding, but its oldest words still have something to say to our most contemporary ...

"These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai" (Leviticus 27:34). This verse is at the end of Chapter 7 of Leviticus, the third book of the Torah ...

In February of last year, The New York Times ran a piece titled “A Jewish Teacher Criticized Israel. She Was Fired.” The piece told the story of Jessie Sander, a young woman who was dismissed from a ...

The protests over the war in Gaza that roiled many college campuses in the United States this past May and June raised once again the ancient specter of anti-Semitism. This year’s version of the ...

Do Israel’s actions in Gaza—the bombing of hospitals, apartments, and entire towns; policies of forced starvation and orders for people to flee their homes—constitute genocide? Last week South Africa ...

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 persistence of antisemitism cannot be understood apart from modern humanity’s loss of a moral vocabulary. Cultural ...

But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, are the offspring of Abraham, my friend;” ( Isaiah 41:8) So the biological offspring of Prophet Abraham (the Banu Israel) became the first ...