I am talking to a friend of mine about his experience on various dating sites. He tells me that from time to time, he will come across a profile that seems promising. And then, right there in the ...

A couple of years ago, I attended a Friday night Shabbat service at a little shul in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The space was heimish. The community was welcoming. The melodies were soulful. But when ...

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.

After 50 years leading various congregations in prayer as a Hazzan, an ordained Cantor, I am at a crossroads. Does God hear my prayers? Must I recite every prayer line-by-line, even though, admittedly ...

It’s not easy getting teens to think about God. Even if they go to Jewish day school. When one Jewish educational organization asked day school students in middle school and high school several years ...

A JTA essay on “fictionalism” describes a worldview incapable of surviving more than a few generations, writes Rabbi Warren Goldstein. “It’s just what we Jews do,” Hershovitz explains. “[I]t keeps me ...

When the Third Temple is built in Jerusalem, should there be a mosque next door? May gentiles keep Shabbat? And should Jews teach Torah to members of different faiths? In a new book, three Israeli ...