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Jews and Christians Are Lowering Standards for Political Gain
21 Sep 2025 17:21 GMT
… Justice requires truth. Jewish tradition has long warned … became complicity.
The Jewish community also faces questions … is partiality, and Jewish law forbids partiality in judgment … Jews and Christians must recover their standards together. Elders and rabbis …
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News In Charlie Kirk, Orthodox Jews found a champion — and a wedge Kirk faced accusations of antisemitism, while some Jews mourned him like a rebbe By Louis Keene 7 min read
21 Sep 2025 11:12 GMT
… a series on notable rabbis.
The image was fake … friendship to the Jewish people.” A Chabad rabbi called Kirk “the … map neatly onto halacha, or Jewish law. (And there are other biblical … Judaism and giving voice to Orthodox resentments toward other Jews. …
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Jewish law prof loses bid to quash TMU's decision not to discipline students who signed 'antisemitic' letter
18 Sep 2025 19:23 GMT
A week after students signed the letter, TMU “announced that it would appoint an independent external expert to conduct a review of the open letter and related events, petitions, and concerns, and to determine whether any of the actions and incidents …
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Learning Daf Yomi is Valuable for Jews
20 Sep 2025 02:22 GMT
… is valuable for Jews because it creates a … lifetime. Deepens Understanding of Judaism: Studying the Talmud provides … understanding of the foundations of Jewish law, philosophy, and thought, … is a former associate Rabbi at Congregation Pirchei Shoshanim, …
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A Word of Torah: Why Judaism?
20 Sep 2025 00:33 GMT
… scholar of the 15th century, Rabbi Isaac Arama. Moses is almost … ancestors? To be sure, in Jewish law you can confer a benefit … life)? To be a Jew means not going with the … Jews at most times have stayed faithful to Judaism, living Jewish lives, building Jewish …
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Opinion Will Judaism after Gaza actually be different from Judaism before Gaza? By Jay Michaelson 5 min read
19 Sep 2025 14:15 GMT
… Jewish law sets forth different punishments for offenses committed against non-Jews … to save a non-Jew’s life, or whether … iteration of Jewish values. For many Jews, Judaism is about … Whereas 200 years ago, rabbis could only excommunicate heretics …
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How the spiritual sound of the shofar shapes the Jewish new year – a Jewish studies scholar explains
18 Sep 2025 22:04 GMT
… collection of rabbinic teachings on Jewish law and theology, three divine books … to set their hearts straight.
Rabbis say the shofar’s sounds … of it at all.
Rabbi Carolyn Braun plays a shofar … High Holidays. Its sounds inspire Jews to take spiritual inventory, …
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A Rabbi Reflects on American Orthodoxy, Torah, and the Environment
18 Sep 2025 17:55 GMT
… understand all this, Rabbi Kornblau’s organization, … halakha, and American Orthodoxy. Below is the transcript of our interview:
Judaism … reality.”
The Israeli rabbis’ straightforward acceptance of … beyond Jews.
Do you believe the Orthodox Jewish community …
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Rosh Hashanah guide 2025: How and when to celebrate the Jewish New Year
18 Sep 2025 01:48 GMT
… ) are recited. Sephardic Jews begin reciting selichot on … magnum opus and code of Jewish law), Hilchot Teshuvah (Laws … Ethics)
The great modern Jewish thinkers Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook ( … types of transgressions in Judaism: transgressions against God and …
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Israel’s central covenant with Jews is in peril like never before
17 Sep 2025 22:13 GMT
… is only partly about Jewish religious values. Jewish text and tradition … with so many absolutes in Jewish law, there are exceptions and … mutually exclusive. But most Jews believed that when the choice … to protect each and every Jew unfold firsthand on Oct. …