In a recent essay on the Jewish feminist site Alma, a young woman explained that she had converted to Judaism while maintaining her atheist beliefs. Abby Jo Morris grew up an evangelical Christian.
The Biblical Book of Esther tells us to celebrate the defeat of Haman and his Jew hating followers: “…celebrate annually the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar as a time when Jews got ...
“To be stringent in the laws of conversion is to be lenient on assimilation.” This clever play on halakhic lingo is the brainchild of Rabbi Haim Amsellem, this generation’s leading rabbinic scholar on ...
Exiled Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had fled to Italy translated Hebrew bible into their common language ...
JERUSALEM — More than two decades ago, Barry Siegal had a religious experience that changed his life forever. “I had a supernatural encounter with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob while walking ...
I thought the need for this conversation would have disappeared. Like, a few decades ago. I cannot believe I have to say this. Again. But, here goes. The other day, I was talking to someone about a ...
Many Americans have lost faith in organized religion, yet according to recent data, they still love the Bible. As of September 2025, Bible sales were up 11% this year over 2024, part of a continuing ...
The arrival here of one of the few extant copies of the Samaritan Bible in the original, a hand-written manuscript of the Hebrew Pentateuch dating from the 15th century, has been announced by Rabbi ...
Jewish evangelization from the heyday of dispensationalism to the rise of Messianic Judaism. Evangelizing the Chosen People Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880-2000by ...
At Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park, the community has rallied around each other and Israel since the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas. They have also experienced a dynamic that is ...