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Hanukah, Judaism

“A mature adult faith demands that we take in difficult, painful facts and allow them to become part of our understandings of God, our language of faith and connection”

A mature adult faith demands that we take in difficult, painful facts and allow...

Israel

The roots of traditionalism lie in Mizrachi Judaism. In the Orient, instead of the...

Israel, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, Zionism

The fact that Oz is an outspoken opponent of occupation and the policies required...

Judaism

…custom, even when considered obligatory, derives its authority from the practice of either a...

Babylonian Talmud, Judaism, Rabbinic Literature

The topic of “tzniut” or “modesty” has recently become a prominent point of discussion...

Judaism

Change can be very slow, even inadvertent, in Jewish tradition. Present-day academies of Talmudic...

Judaism, Late Antiquity, Religion

Universalist ideas were central to Jewish authors living in the Second Temple period, and...

Judaism, Late Antiquity

We tend to think of the consecutive developments of Greek philosophy, normative Judaism, and...

Christianity

Scholars who have argued that early Christians were influenced by Stoic thought miss a...

Religion

Universalism has nothing to do with welcoming converts into one’s faith community, which actually...