“A sacred text is a text that haunts me all the time – but it doesn’t paralyze me.” – Rabbi David Hartman There is no dispute that Jews love to argue about our ancient texts. We crave the rigor of ...
A centuries-old mystery hidden in plain sight has finally come to light. In a modest prayer house in Israel, among community leaders and handwritten pages passed quietly from generation to generation, ...
In light of recent provocative acts of hatred, like the burning of the Quran and the threat of burning the Torah and Christian Bible, the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) organized a virtual global ...
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, credited with having made Jewish sacred texts accessible to the general public, died Friday in Jerusalem at the age of 83, to tributes from Israeli leaders. Steinsaltz devoted ...
Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, sharply criticized today the use in Jewish schools of abridged versions of the Chumash, the first five books of Moses in the Old Testament. He ...
Howard Schwartz grew up devouring the myths of quarreling Roman gods and towering Greek Cyclopes, and as an adult he kept asking the question he first posed to his teachers as a young boy: Is there ...
Abby Stein is a proud Jewish woman. But growing up, she didn’t feel that Judaism had a space for people like her. Abby was raised in an ultra-Orthodox hasidic Jewish community, and as she puts it, ...
AI has already started to transform the way society functions, from automating routine tasks to analysing a huge amount of data beyond human capacity. AI's influence is expanding across every sector ...