Sublime

Simply by reading this text, I was implicated in it. It was like an ancient Rorschach test: What did I see? How did I fill in its gaps? What did that say about me? How have Jews understood the Torah over the years? What does that say about us as a people?

Your very existence—both as an individual Jew-by-choice and as part of a historic influx of new Jews—challenges deeply held but unexamined assumptions about Jewish identity and about Jewishness, which is also referred to as Yiddishkeit. For those who understand Jewishness as an ethnicity, converts present an interesting dilemma.

Education, in Judaism, is active, not passive. It is about honing the mind, sharpening the intellect, through question and answer, challenge and response.

I learned that just about all of Judaism is rooted in its words, that did not exactly fill me with confidence. I found parts of it to be moving and relatable, but with its bizarre rituals, fallible characters, supernatural occurrences, and not so warm and fuzzy God, the Torah did not strike me as an ideal text upon which to base a major world relig

different groups, each in its own way, wish to bring salvation now by choosing either particularism or universalism to the exclusion of the other.

just as we engage in interpretation of Torah, so too can we hold the siddur in the same light.

With its dedicated volunteer culture, focus on inspiring traditional davening, high-level Torah study, and egalitarian, universal outlook, Kehilat Hadar attempts to live out a world of Empowered Judaism.

In his book Flexigidity, Gidi Grinstein hypothesizes that the most fundamental aspect of Judaism is its ability to adapt, to be rigid and flexible at the same time.

Among American Jews, there is a significant demand for meaningful, engaged Jewish life.