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The music of the synagogue celebrates both the diversity and unity of the Jewish people.

An overview of synagogue and religious music, including cantillation, nusah, the nigun, cantors and cantorial music, and the influence of prayer in the synagogue.

Jewish literature offers many insights into the nature of friendship, the rewards it offers, and the efforts one should make to sustain a friendship.

Reconstructionists see Jewish law as no longer viable, but still a resource to be taken seriously.

Orthodox Views on Halakhah. Views on Halakhah. Halakhah in Jewish Daily Life and Practice. Jewish Life.

Seeking guidance from the Jewish legal tradition, without a belief in its binding nature—especially in light of contemporary moral sensitivies.

Jews pray in order to enrich our lives and seek comfort, to connect to the past and to others, to celebrate and develop a sense of the sacred, to serve God and help make ourselves Godlike.

A Renaissance composer who applied the conventions of choral music to Jewish liturgy

With klezmer's popularity on the rise, artists have taken it in new--and sometimes "controversial"--directions.

In the Torah, women are absent at the covenantal moment; to make up for this, Jewish history must be reconstructed.

Because the evolution of Judaism is affected by social conditions, it can be actively developed to be gender sensitive.