The group proposing a 21,027-square-foot synagogue failed to get approval to build in the township several times over the ...

The nonprofit’s billboards are a way for the organization’s message to reach more people who aren’t Jewish. “We really need ...

The most powerful Christian deity is divided into three primary forms: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. With so many forms, it's only natural that this Holy Trinity would bear so many ...

The Conservative Jewish school in Queens said in a letter to families the name change reflects the community’s evolving needs ...

Might a golem help make a minyan? Over 300 years ago, a rabbi considered the question, now cited in countless discussions ...

In October 2000, then head of school at Perelman Jewish Day School Jay Leberman held a focus group to determine who Perelman ...

Two million Jews in the United States—at least one-third of the total—identify as Reform in polls. Yet, two prominent ...

When did Judaism as we know it today—devoted to one God and the teachings of the Torah—really take root? How did the religious practices of the earliest Israelites differ from Judaism?

Act 3, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” begins with one of the most famous texts in English literature: “To be or ...

Yonatan Adler posits a convincing thesis, tightly and compellingly argued, that widespread observance of Pentateuchal legislation by Judeans—or what we now call Judaism—emerged no earlier than the ...

Assessments of the life of Jimmy Carter by Jews focus on his impact on the Middle East. Cheers for his critical role in ...

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