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Ultra Nomenclature

In the Forward this week, Abbott Katz begins his plea for new Jewish nomenclature with: “Stop calling me an ultra-Orthodox ...

Messianic Jews in Israel

Last week, a 15 year-old boy had to have his leg amputated after being wounded by an exploding Purim gift ...

From the Academy: Kissing Kabbalists

In this installment of “From the Academy,� Dr. Joel Hecker, Chair of the Department of Modern Jewish Civilization and Associate ...

Guide for the Halachic Minyan

More and more Orthodox women are exploring the boundaries of their participation in communal Jewish prayer. An Israeli couple has ...

Brain Death & Jewish Law

Jewish bioethicists, across the denominational spectrum, tend to consider that cessation of breathing (which is connected to brain stem activity) ...

More About Peoplehood

Talking about the decline of Jewish Peoplehood was all the rage in 2007. But the debate between Jewcy’s Joey Kurtzman ...

A Mitzva Child

Oh Conservative Movement, you continue our love-hate relationship. Today I hate you.The movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards recently ...

Religion & Mathematics

-A mathematician makes the argument that the amazing coincidences, “miracles,� that people take as evidence for the existence of God ...

Muhammad on Wikipedia

The Wikipedia entry on Muhammad contains a 15th century illustration of the Muslim prophet preaching the Quran. But iconography like ...

Voting and the Homosexual Agenda

In anticipation of today’s primaries, Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman for the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada ...

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