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Is It All About the Body?

Feminists renew and create ritual focused on physical transformations.

New Ceremonies: Being Pregnant

In a world where pregnancy is a choice, we should ritually acknowledge those who undertake it.

Marriage & Community

In entering into marriage, a couple takes on new responsibilities for the Jewish community and its future.

Jewish Views on Islam

According to most Jewish thinkers, Islam is not idolatry; but authorities have disagreed as to whether it's better to convert or be martyred.

Modern Orthodoxy & the Chosen People

The requirements and transcendent possibilities of Jewish law are the bases of Jewish distinctness.

Giving Birth

Women have been creating new rituals that use traditional images and texts to reflect their experiences of childbirth.

New Rituals: Continuity, Tradition, and Authenticity

The viability of new Jewish rituals will ultimately be determined by their continued presence in the Jewish community.

Covenant and Chosenness

According to some interpreters, the Jews chose to be chosen.

Before the Jewish Wedding Ceremony

Before the wedding, bride and groom are feted, the bride is veiled, and the groom dons a shroud-like garment.

Tenaim: The Conditions of Marriage

Contemporary couples are reinterpreting an old ceremony that set the financial and logistical arrangements for an upcoming marriage

The Free Will Problem: Modern Solutions

Modern thinkers have addressed the free will problem by questioning the authority of science, acknowledging the limits of freedom, and asserting the transcendent importance of choice.

Three Prenuptial Agreements That Just Might Work

Three prenuptial marriage protection agreements have been accepted by Orthodox rabbis as fulfilling halakhah (Jewish law).

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