Another interpretation of the debated question: what constitutes Conservative Judaism? was presented Sunday night by Rabbi Jacob Kohn of Temple Anshe Chesed in the symposium arranged by the Hebrew ...

As opposed to the term “machshava,” which we use to refer to philosophical studies (such as metaphysics), hashkafa refers to how we understand our world’s workings and how we are meant to live within ...

Sefaria is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the cultivation of Jewish learning. It has assembled a far-reaching library of Jewish texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation, ...

How can I write a d’var Torah when I can’t stop crying? The horrific news from the Middle East — our boys, their boys, the steady progress of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria — I can’t bear to put ...

At a senior residence in Dedham, three women who were otherwise strangers create a new cover for an old Czech scroll. When NewBridge on the Charles celebrates Rosh Hashanah beginning Sunday night, ...

When Clarita Kassin and her family fled the violence and kidnappings in their native Colombia in the late 70’s to settle in Miami, she wanted to recreate the close-knit Jewish community she left ...

Diversity in Judaism is common in our history and liturgy. One can visit many synagogues and observe that the order of the davening and the actual siddur text are very varied from shul to shul. In ...

Scroll was discovered in the archives of the University of Bologna. ROME May 29, 2013— -- An Italian professor believes he has found the world's oldest and most complete torah scroll safely ...