If the state budget is not approved in all three readings by the end of March, when the fiscal year closes, the Knesset will ...
In 1994, ABC News sent me to Billings, Montana, where neo-Nazis were terrorizing the town’s small Jewish community.
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At the recent Roll for Destiny exhibition at the Schechter Gallery in Tel Aviv, an overlap between geekdom and religiosity ...
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Both Goldstein and Jewish tradition recognize that the need to matter can become destructive. The person desperate for ...
Without Zionism, most religiously liberal American Jewish communities do not have sufficient Jewish content to sustain a ...
An arson attack at a synagogue in Mississippi was a reminder of the threat Jews face, but also of the strength of a small ...
After years of rebellion and messianic fervor, Rome unleashed its full power on Jerusalem in 70 AD. This chapter follows the ...
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Is tradition in Judaism still relevant?

Why would a rational, educated woman choose to join an ancient people and embrace traditions that seem to belong to another age?