Beliefs & Practices

Surprisingly enough, gender-sensitive critiques of the Jewish God can create problems for notions of masculinity.

Jewish feminists imagine and address God in a multiplicity of ways, both innovative and traditional.

Martin Buber and Abraham Joshua Heschel stressed the human encounter with God.

Written in 933, The Book of Beliefs and Opinions provided rational analysis of God and Judaism, setting a precedent for medieval philosophers.

Like many medieval Jewish thinkers, Maimonides formulated his own proofs for the existence of God.

Author Jack Miles' Pulitzer Prize winning biography is just divine.

Humans, not God, are at the center of this Jewish denomination.

So God is just like you and me, right? Maimonides explains why the Bible's descriptions of God can't be taken literally.

Using language--a human construct--to describe the divine is a precarious matter.

Covenant, conversion, custom, and circumcision.

How Jewish thinkers over the ages have explained the importance of ritual circumcision.

How can creativity and a sense of commandedness be combined when confronting new ritual needs?