Right at the outset of the Aseret Hadibrot or Ten Declarations (commonly translated as the Ten Commandments), God declares, “I am the Lord your God Who took you out of the Land of Egypt” (Exodus 20:2) ...

Only 38% of American Jews believe in an afterlife, far fewer than in Israel, according to a new study of spiritual practices around the world. That share was lower than the 83% of U.S. Christians who ...

More than two-thirds of American Jews believe that New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will make the city’s Jews less ...

“Articles of Faith” is a vital text for anyone interested in the complexities of Orthodox Judaism today as it faces a future full of change But there is a dark side to the web. We are not discussing ...

The teaching of both Islam and Judaism is that an evil thought only becomes sinful when it results in evil behavior. But humans do need to be limited by societal and religious restrictions. Examples ...

The North Carolina Jewish Clergy Association opposes Senate Bill 20, a 12-week abortion ban misleadingly labeled “Care for Women, Children and Families Act. We are asking members of the N.C. General ...

If I had a dollar for every time that someone has started a conversation with me that way — in the synagogue, the grocery store or on a cross-continental airline trip, when I out myself as a rabbi to ...

In a recent essay on the Jewish feminist site Alma, a young woman explained that she had converted to Judaism while maintaining her atheist beliefs. Abby Jo Morris grew up an evangelical Christian.

Throughout the High Holy Days liturgy, we are reminded of Judaism’s rich tradition of honoring the sanctity of life and acknowledging the inevitability of death. One of the most transfixing parts of ...

When Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano kicked-off his primary campaign on Jan. 8, he donned a tallit and blew a shofar, despite not being Jewish. The use of Jewish holy ...