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Beliefs & Practices, Celebrate, Shabbat
Friday Night at Home
The traditional Shabbat evening rituals are best shared with family and friends.
Jewish Texts, Pray, Shema, Study
Deuteronomy 6:4–The Shema
While the Shema has been seen as a declaration of absolute monotheism, it has other meanings in its biblical and liturgical contexts.
Jewish Law, Jewish Texts, Study
Contemporary Jews and Halakhah
Jews of different stripes differ greatly with respect to their assessment of the role Jewish law should play today—and each camp has much to learn from the others.
American Jews, Gender & Sexuality, Live
Who Is Dr. Ruth?
How a Jewish grandmother forever changed America's ideas of sexual education and literacy.
Beliefs & Practices, Israel, Jewish History, Jewish Thought, Study, Zionism
Questioning Zionism
Since the beginning of modern Zionism, some Jews have stood in opposition to it.
Conversion History: Secularization of the Jewish Mission
While the early Reform movement presented selected universal, liberal moral teachings as the core of Judaism, the contemporary Reform movement is rediscovering many particularistic Jewish practices.
The Biblical Jerusalem
Biblical texts present Jerusalem as a concrete city and also begin to develop it as an abstract symbol.
Afterlife, Beliefs & Practices, Study
The Messianic Society: A Jewish Utopia
In Jewish sources, the ideal Jewish society will be situated in Israel and ushered in by catastrophic events.
Orthodoxy’s Limitations
A community that cannot address problems as real as its members' economic suffering leaves a lot to be desired.