Our Judaism is broadly defined as the collective historical experience of the Jewish people – a widely and wildly diverse ...

When did Judaism as we know it today—devoted to one God and the teachings of the Torah—really take root? How did the religious practices of the earliest Israelites differ from Judaism?

For many Jewish people, Jewish law governs all aspects of Jewish life, including how to worship, compulsory rituals and dietary laws. The Jewish place of worship is called the synagogue and it ...

Weeks after being congressionally rebuked for failing to protect Jewish students, the University of California Los Angeles ...

Jewish denominations that did away with much ritual made their practice even closer to Christianity. We need to clean up these effects of Assimilation and return to the original Judaism.

who had tried to forcefully uproot the beliefs and practices of Judaism from the people of Israel. The victorious Jews repaired, cleansed, and rededicated the Temple. When they sought to light the ...

Daniella Greenbaum Davis is a writer in New York. Hanukkah is familiarly known as a celebration of miracles: a tiny jar of oil that burned for eight days, the triumph of an oppressed people ...

The Lev Tahor community, founded in 1988 in Israel, practice an austere form of Judaism with interpretations of Jewish law that includes long prayer sessions and arranged marriages. Lev Tahor ...

who fought against the Syrian-Greek forces that sought to eradicate Jewish practices. While the Greeks were not opposed to the Jews celebrating their cultural heritage, he said, they forbade them ...