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The Amidah: Standing Still to Receive God’s Blessings
The centerpiece of Jewish prayer, recited quietly three times each day, is the meeting place of our human yearnings with God's life-giving energy.
Initiative and Self-Sufficiency
God met the Israelites' need to relate to God on their own terms — we must do the same.
And The Loveliest Of All Was The Unicorn
The many interpretations of the tachash remind us to look beyond surface appearances for spiritual intensity.
Contemporary Wedding Issues
An overview of contemporary issues encountered in Jewish marriage: same-sex marriages, egalitarianism, prenuptial agreements, etc.
Beliefs & Practices, God, Jewish Thought, Study
Jewish Conceptions of God in the Middle Ages
An overview of medieval philosophic and kabbalistic approaches to God.
American Jews, Antisemitism & Bigotry, Sephardic Jews
Tomas Trevino de Sobremonte
On April 11, 1649, Tomas Trevino de Sobremonte was burned at the stake in Mexico City, a victim of the Inquisition. His crime: practicing the rites and ceremonies of the
Holocaust, Jewish History, Members of the Scribe, Study
Facing Paris’s Black Marble Plaques
Now that I live part-time in Paris, I explore the city’s complex and sometimes disturbing relationship to toward its Jewish ...