Rabbi Rachel Adler is a woman of many accomplishments. She is a celebrated and revered feminist theologian. She is the David Ellenson Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at Hebrew Union College Jewish ...

The question addressed in this article explores the intersection of theology and mysticism in Judaism and Islam. All religions have mystical elements in every aspect of religious life, from the ...

Read how the human brain-arguably the most complex physical structure in the known universe-reflects the same archetypal ...

For a 3 a.m. class, the enrollment is not bad. Each morning, a few dozen students gather in a study hall in the small town of Telz Stone, 15 minutes west of Jerusalem, for Rabbi Avraham Gottlieb’s ...

It should come as no surprise that, while sitting in a local café, about to take in the final chapter of a book that includes mysticism, folklore, fantasy, and a story about a rabbi who creates a ...

SAFED, Israel – Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, is known around the world thanks to the many Hollywood celebrities who have embraced its teachings. While Madonna and Demi Moore may be seen walking in ...

(RNS) — Jews are not unfamiliar with pain and suffering. We memorialize national calamity with holidays, rituals and remembrances, as we do today on Holocaust Remembrance Day. We have highly scripted ...

Jewish Social Studies plays an important role in advancing the understanding of Jewish life and the Jewish past. Key themes are issues of identity and peoplehood, the vistas opened by the integration ...

It was truly a historic find. About 15 years ago, archivists examining several yellowed volumes of notarial records in the city of Girona in northeastern Spain began suspecting that the covers were ...

SAFED, Israel — Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, is known around the world thanks to the many Hollywood celebrities who have embraced its teachings. While Madonna and Demi Moore may be seen walking in ...

Years ago when interviewing for a rabbinic position in Denver, a longtime member of the synagogue who has since become a very close friend asked me the following question: “Rabbi, when I die, will I ...