The major part of our Torah portion, Mishpatim, raises important questions about Judaism, religion in general, ethics, and law. First, the nature of Judaism. I have a brief definition of Judaism: a ...

More enlightening than Rabbi Dorff’s conclusions are the paths he takes to arrive at them. The work of the Conservative posek (legal scholar) involves far more than poring over tomes of Jewish law. On ...

The April 1-2 conference in Rome brought together Catholic and Jewish scholars from around the world to the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas to deepen the theological foundations of ...

Israeli political life is often interpreted through the language of security and calculation, as though a state were a device that converts threats into responses. This reading is not false, yet it is ...

For years, Jewish organizations have fought for abortion access as a matter of religious freedom. Jewish law is clear: Life begins at first breath, not fertilization. Until that moment, a pregnancy is ...

(RNS) — When Rabbi Michael J. Broyde’s phone rings these days, it may be a fellow scholar wanting an interpretation of Torah or a former congregant at his Atlanta synagogue looking to discuss ...

As elected representatives of Vermont, they implicated our state in Israel's atrocities,” one advocate said at a Statehouse press conference Tuesday.

In a number of countries with sizable Muslim and Jewish populations, we asked Muslim and Jewish adults for their views on religion and governance – specifically, whether religious law should be the ...

As a Jewish woman, I was alarmed by two recent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court giving employers a right to opt out of insurance coverage for contraception for their employees. Jewish law does not ...

The Vatican in collaboration with the Camille and Sandy Kress Project launched the first in a series of conferences titled “Jews and Catholics on Ethics: A Light to the Nations” this week, ...