At a Manhattan synagogue, rabbis and thinkers lament that young American Jews are losing faith in a model that once linked ...

Twentieth-century Jewish communities were described according to a homogeneous historiographical prototype that subordinated ...

That phrase isn’t about trembling at divine thunder. As Martin Buber brilliantly puts it, “fear of God” means deep, unshakable respect for human life — the very respect glaringly absent in Amalek, the ...

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged calm after a bus driver ran over and killed a teenage boy.

Aaron Abramson served in the Israeli Defense Forces before abandoning his faith and wandering the world in search of meaning.

Jews have been used as the scapegoats of societies throughout history. Blaming all Jews for allegedly killing Jesus of ...

The October 7 massacre did not emerge from a vacuum—and historian Rafael Medoff’s new book traces the long ideological road ...

Despite antisemitism and the threats of renewed conflict between Israel and Hamas, there are many reasons for optimism for ...

From Goering at Nuremberg to modern antisemitism, manufactured threats turn ordinary people into willing executioners.

To improve your long-term well-being, however, not all proxy goals are created equal. They must align with your internal ...

The Jewish prayer shawl, the tallit, is as mysterious as it is iconic. Worn by Jews each morning when they pray to God, it connects them to the divine realm, their history, and their culture. However, ...

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