Weiss died on Tuesday, surrounded by family at her home in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, following a year-long battle with ...
The fifth weekly biblical portion in Deuteronomy is Shoftim, “Judges.” The rabbis who were descendants of the ancient Pharisees viewed this portion as supporting the Pharisees’ views, rather than ...
A person who converts to Judaism becomes a Jew is just as Jewish as someone born into Judaism. There is a good precedent for this. Ruth, the great-great grandmother of King David, was a convert to ...
I watch my toddler pore over her children’s Bible, tracing the illustrations with her chubby finger and retelling herself the stories in her sweet, ...
Various communities of Jews and Christians imagined their Haman differently from one another, usually unaware that there were other options to consider,” the professor Adam Silverstein told JNS.The po ...
Rabbis and cantors shouldn't have to seek outside training to flourish in their work, writes a cantor and licensed social worker.
Rabbi Andrea Weiss, a former provost of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion who made history as the first woman to ordain rabbis in the Reform movement, has died.
When rain shut down Dead Sea plans, the Hebrew Music Museum turned a Birthright setback into an unforgettable Jerusalem experience.
In a preface to the 1932 Hebrew edition of the painter Leonid Pasternak’s study of Rembrandt, Russian-Jewish poet Hayim Nahman Bialik observed that although the Dutch artist was not Jewish, we “must ...
Historically, the greatest threats to Jewish survival have been antisemitism and assimilation. The first quarter of the 21st century has been a moment when we are facing challenges to Jewish ...
Even still, some Christians continued to read and value apocryphal texts. One of the oldest complete versions of the New Testament, the Codex Sinaiticus, dates to the fourth century and includes two ...
When most people think of Israel, especially Christians in Ghana, Nigeria and several East African countries, they imagine a deeply religious nation .
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