Rabbi Bruce D. Forman says “may this year’s Thanksgiving table be a place where we feel not pressure to be grateful, but ...
A surge in LGBTQ rabbinical students reflects long-delayed access and a changing model of spiritual leadership, raising questions about a possible ‘queering’ of the non-Orthodox rabbinate.
Probation spoke of “compliance”; Torah spoke of “return.” Psychology asked about cognitive restructuring; Judaism asked about ...
Hasidic rabbis attended the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries and gathered in prayer Friday in ...
In Vayera, this week’s Torah portion, Abraham is in extreme pain — yet he is eager to reach out to strangers in warmth.
Tomorrow night, along with Jews across America and around the world, I’ll be heading to my synagogue to begin observing Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. For most of my life, I attended ...
To Buchanan, country music and the Torah have a lot in common – the sin, the redemption, the deception, and the heartbreak.
Does the past affect how we perceive the present? Do our concerns in the present affect the ways in which we see the past? Does what we have thought in the past—the history of our ideas—affect what ...
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 ...
A Georgetown University theology professor published a book Nov. 4 arguing against supersessionism, the belief that ...