Wishing a joyous Tu Bishvat to all – a celebration of growth, renewal, and the flourishing of the Jewish people. With prayers ...
The Jewish population of Judea and Galilee was divided into three religious groups, two major and one minor. The largest group by numbers were the Pharisees but they were not a majority.
Most Jews know that sexual activities between a husband and wife are a Mitsvah. Many Jews know that lovemaking on Shabbat is a double Mitsvah. Some Jews know that the Kabbalah (the Jewish mystical ...
A Pakistani Sufi leader visited Israel, challenging taboos and advocating for dialogue between faiths and nations.
The truth is that there is no gray area. One is either a Jew or one is not. There are no half-Jews, no spectrum. And being ...
David Lynch taught me how to be Jewish. That claim may seem bizarre – perhaps as strange, oracular, and inscrutable as many of the lines in Lynch’s films, music and art. After all, Lynch ...
his classes incorporate lessons from the Torah and Kabbalah. And his students — mostly from the United States, but also from Russia, Argentina and Chile — don’t mind the mixing of Judaism ...
For Henry Israeli, the director of the Jewish studies program at Drexel University, love for Judaism was reignited a little ...
Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. According to Margarethe ...
The British surrealist Ithell Colquhoun combined magic and mythology to create art from buried folklore.
One summer’s day in 1936, a crowd piled into a Mayfair gallery to hear Salvador Dalí give a lecture at the International ...