My kid is asking things like: Where is God? What does God look like? How come I don't hear God? … So someone more knowledgeable: Do Jews believe God is everywhere and in everything? Is God all powerful and all good? Do loved ones go to "heaven"? What can they even understand?
Read More »Ask A Jew: What is shiva?
After the burial, mourners return home (or, ideally, to the home of the deceased) to sit shiva for seven days. Shiva is simply the Hebrew word for seven.
Read More »Ask A Jew: Are the Jewish people of today the true Jews from Israel?
“The Genome-wide Structure of the Jewish People,” a 2010 article from the journal Nature, suggests that Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jews have a shared Middle Eastern ancestry
Read More »Ask a Jew: Do you think ritual circumcision should be practiced today?
Neal Schindler says, "I would never make a blanket statement about what Jews should or should not do in relation to brit milah."
Read More »Ask a Jew: Is the term “Jewess” ever appropriate?
Without doing any research, I knew “Jewess” is outdated at best and offensive at worst, though I wasn’t sure precisely why.
Read More »Ask a Jew: What about graven images and sea food?
"Does Mosaic law forbid making any statue, or just statues of gods? Also, what types of seafood are allowed?"
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