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How to Navigate High Holiday Morning Services
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services feature many additions that can make the services difficult to follow. Here’s a guide.
Planting for the Future
Parashat Kedoshim teaches us to preserve our natural resources.
Parashat Noach: Summary
A flood destroys all living creatures, aside from Noah, his family and the animals in their ark.
Beliefs & Practices, Clothing & Appearance, Health & Wellness, Live, Study
Medicine, Healing and the Jewish Tradition
Despite early theological objections, Jewish law views the practice of medicine as a mitzvah.
Judy Blume
How a critically acclaimed author has been a victim of censorship.
Beliefs & Practices, Jewish Thought, Study, Suffering & Evil in Judaism
Berkovits & Cohen: The Free Will Defense
The deviant use of human freedom, not God, is the source of evil and suffering.
American Jews, Jewish Culture, Jewish Film, Live
Hollywood Jews
Despite the Jewish dominance of Hollywood, Jewish filmmakers were not always comfortable portraying Jewish themes on screen.
New Rituals for Welcoming Daughters
Some ways to symbolize a baby girl's entry into the covenant of Judaism.
Beliefs & Practices, Jewish Thought, Judaism and Free Will, Study
Divine Providence
According to some thinkers, God only watches over people in a general way; according to others, divine providence extends to the minute details of life.