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| Why Lifecycle Ritual?
Lifecycle customs and ceremonies transform life transitions and connect us to each other.
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| Deeper Explorations
How do we make sense of the varied descriptions of God in the Bible? How did the medieval thinkers conceive of God? In the following articles, you will read about how different books, thinkers, and movements arrived at their conceptions of God.
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| Overview: Kabbalah and Hasidism
In the last three decades, Jewish mysticism has gone from an underground discipline to a mass phenomenon.
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| Contemporary Jewish Renewal and Spirituality
Beyond denominational options there lies a wealth of Jewish spiritual opportunities. These opportunities include an interactive approach to prayer that may defy one’s standard expectations of a Jewish service.
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| Embattled Holy Land Patriarch
Kim Lawton reports on the growing controversy surrounding the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem.
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| Talmud Study
As tens of thousands of Orthodox Jews completed a more than seven-year Talmud study program, Religion and Ethics Newsweekly visited the recent celebrations in New York City.
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| Confront the Extremists in Our Midst
Rabbi Eric Yoffie discusses the damaging effects of Israeli settler fanaticism and poses the question "Why can’t American Jews call extremism by its name?"
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| Why America Needs a Spiritual left
For years the Democrats have been telling themselves 'it's the economy, stupid.' Yet millions of middle-income Americans have voted against their economic interests to support Republicans who have tapped a deeper set of needs. Democrats differ on the fix.
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| Paradise Lost: An Iraqi Jewish Story
"A verse in an Arabic song describes my family's attitude about the past: 'El'li ma andou atique, ma yijinou jdid'--'one who does not hold on to that which is ancient will not be able to have that which is new.'"
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| 350th Anniversary of Jews in America
This month in New York there began what is to be a year-long, countrywide celebration of the Jewish community in America -- hundreds of lectures, concerts, exhibits, and performances.
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| What's Different about Jewish Holidays?
Jewish holy days are not about events in the life of God. Rather, they celebrate moments in the lives and in the history of the Jewish people. On these special days, God's connection to our human existence is exalted.
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| FAQ: Is there an Afterlife?
In Judaism what is believed to happen to someone after they die? Is there some idea of an afterlife, or is that purely a Christian invention?
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| The Yiddish Renaissance
If you're interested in learning Yiddish, Jennifer Bern-Vogel is willing to help!
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| Pesach Yizkor 2000
For centuries all Jews would use a carbon-copy Haggadah.
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| Where Heaven and Earth Touch So Closely, They Appear to be Kissing
A poem about renewing and increasing faith.
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