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Neal Schindler, who attends a Reform congregation and is in an interfaith marriage, responds.
Read More »Ask a Jew: What is a Reform Jew’s viewpoint on interfaith marriage?
Ask a Jew: What is a Reform Jew’s viewpoint on interfaith marriage?
Hyphen Parent explains the policies of the Central Conference of American Rabbis on interfaith marriage.
Read More »Ask a Jew: If the Jewish people believe the Savior is yet to come, why have most Jews forgone the written law in the Hebrew Scriptures?
And just for the record: “The Jewish people” aren’t a monolith.
Read More »Ask a Jew: How do I explain God in Jewish terms to a 4-year-old?
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
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