This past week, adding to the controversy surrounding the Cordoba Initiative, the Anti-Defemation League (ADL) voiced its opposition to the…
Jewish community responds to ADL statement on the Cordoba Initiative
Judaism
“The Animated Avadhuta”
Trent Gilliss, senior editor of Speaking of Faith, shares the thought-provoking and beautifully drawn short "The Animated Avadhuta."
The ethical dimensions of kashrut law
Should the ethical standards applied to the slaughter of animals be expanded to cover the standards of the human work…
Questions of Zionism, conversion, and the diaspora
Natan Sharansky, head of the Jewish Agency for Israel and now, as The New York Times reports, leader of "a…
A third Jewish temple?
1,940 years after the destruction of the Second Jewish Temple, a building plan has been authorized in São Paulo, Brazil…
“Who is a Jew?”
A controversial bill passed the Israeli Knesset's (Parliament) law committee this week. The Rotem Bill, as it is known (named…
Holocaust survivor dances, controversy ensues
"Dancing Auschwitz" has reappeared on the internet not a year after its release in December of 2009, catching the attention…
The “inter-religious” university and the Christian right
In early June, the Claremont School of Theology announced that it would merge with its local Jewish and Muslim counterparts…
Israeli ultra-Orthodox protest school integration
Yesterday afternoon in Jerusalem, vast numbers of ultra-Orthodox Jews protested the court-mandated integration of a religious girls' school, raising provocative…
Antihumanism and religion
One of the things that intellectual historians show us, although often only implicitly, is the fluidity of the terms of…