The divine cannot be reduced to scientific explanation or empirical inquiry. God exists beyond the categories through which ...

All three faiths trace their spiritual ancestry to Abraham and believe in one God. Yet their origins set them on very ...

Aaron Abramson served in the Israeli Defense Forces before abandoning his faith and wandering the world in search of meaning.

For a Christian, reading this book is like taking an introductory language course. You may not learn to speak the new language fluently, but in the process of studying it you discover a great deal ...

(The Conversation) — The festival of Shavuot, marked this year on June 5 and 6, celebrates the biblical story of God revealing Torah – Jewish scriptures and teachings – to the Israelites at Mount ...

A JTA essay on “fictionalism” describes a worldview incapable of surviving more than a few generations, writes Rabbi Warren Goldstein. “It’s just what we Jews do,” Hershovitz explains. “[I]t keeps me ...

Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God, as Pope Francis and suspended Wheaton College professor Larycia Hawkins affirm? Or are Allah and the Christian deity two different things, as the ...

After 50 years leading various congregations in prayer as a Hazzan, an ordained Cantor, I am at a crossroads. Does God hear my prayers? Must I recite every prayer line-by-line, even though, admittedly ...

Judaism has always evolved. In a world of instant access and fading institutions, rabbinic leadership must evolve with it.

A prophecy about Alexander the Great is found in the Jewish Book of Daniel, which was written 200 years before his birth.