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Faith, in Judaism, is not the absence of doubt. It is the presence of commitment. It is the decision to live in covenant with ...
If God is willing to conduct a dialogue with a human being and change His mind, how much more so must human beings conduct a ...
Pope Francis himself was a longtime friend of the Jews, calling antisemitism "a sin against God." As Jews, we not only offer ...
Jews celebrate the freeing of Israelite slaves from Egypt and ... ordering him to "let my people go," cautioning the Egyptian ruler that God would inflict punishment if he did not heed warning. Upon ...
Islamic and Jewish concepts of sin are virtual opposites to Christian concepts in many aspects. For example, there is no concept of “sinning in the mind” in Islam and Judaism. To a Muslim or a Jew an ...
Pope Francis, 88, was remembered for fostering solidarity among Catholics, people of other faiths including Jews and Muslims, ...
It the story of our birth as a people. We came to life out of the darkness. In the dark of night the Jewish People were born. Out of the depths of despair and under great adversity. Why is this ...
ELOHIM: Translated as God (a plural noun, for more than one, almost always used with singular verbs, the dual form Eloah is used in Job); Elohim is the royal I; and is very often used in the Quran. It ...
For many disconnected Jews, in other words, the leap of faith required to believe in God is a hard sell. Indeed one of the top selling points of Judaism is that you don’t have to believe in God ...
This is who was elected pope. As archbishop of Buenos Aires, then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio attended Rosh Hashanah ...
The story of the Hebrew Bible, it always seemed to me, follows an uneasy relationship between an obstinate people and an irascible God. In an epic that spans hundreds of years, their relationship ...