Judaism
Confessions of a post-Vatican II Reform rabbi
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 14, 2022
(RNS) — When we make religion easier and more convenient, what evaporates in the process?
What Jews don’t know about Christianity could fill a book
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 1, 2022
(RNS) — It’s more than Jesus and Christmas. Let’s just start there.
Does Sean Hannity believe in God?
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 12, 2022
(RNS) — Because if he does, we might ask: What does faith really mean?
Do it today
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 9, 2022
(RNS) — An obscure quote in an old Polish synagogue sent me on the search for the meaning of life.
The greatest contemporary teacher of Judaism is a van driver in Israel
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 7, 2022
An unbelievable story that shook me and shaped me. The ultimate travel story to Israel.
‘They hated us. They tried to kill us’ … An old joke becomes a Yom Kippur message
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 3, 2022
You know the joke. Time to go way deeper. It's about your life and your soul.
The Jewish word that no one uses anymore
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 28, 2022
(RNS) — A word that comes straight out of the Jewish moral vocabulary list. Sometimes, it is about our own families.
‘Traditional’ Jewish American foods keep changing, with cookbooks playing an influential role in how Jews mark Rosh Hashana
By Deborah Dash Moore — September 26, 2022
(The Conversation) — A historian of American Judaism explains how cookbooks across the 20th century have influenced and reflected the shifting tastes of American Jews.
Bring Leonard Cohen home for the High Holy Days
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 22, 2022
What can a late, lamented singer-songwriter teach us about inwardness and the Jewish new year? Plenty.
Why Queen Elizabeth mattered
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 9, 2022
(RNS) — It turns out we needed a queen all along.
You say you want a revolution? Try the Bible
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 26, 2022
It's a noisy text. I wouldn't want it any other way.
‘God is life,’ Rabbi Yonatan Neril on ecological conversion and the war in Ukraine
By Marika Proctor — August 19, 2022
(RNS) — Rabbi Yonatan Neril is the founder and executive director of the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development — a Jerusalem-based nonprofit engaged in revealing the connection between religion and ecology worldwide.
What stabbed Salman Rushdie?
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 16, 2022
(RNS) — This was not only an attack on an author. It was an attack on culture and civilization itself.
2nd Australian state bans public displays of Nazi swastikas
By Associated Press — August 11, 2022
SYDNEY (AP) — The law allows for the swastika to be used in academic, historical or educational settings, thereby paving the way for its display by Hindus, Buddhists and Jains for whom it holds religious significance.
How a Peruvian farmer converted to Judaism and started a movement
By Yonat Shimron — August 3, 2022
(RNS) — 'The Prophet of the Andes' offers a peek at the momentous changes that are reshaping religions as more people abandon the religion of their birth for something else — in this case, Judaism.
