Religion
Moment’s religion section highlights Jewish traditions, rituals, rabbinical thoughts and philosophies and so much more. This section includes our popular “Ask the Rabbis” series, where we gather answers from rabbis from different branches of Judaism about the most pressing questions, religious or otherwise.
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As we confront our own mortality, it is time to take stock of our unique identity as the bridge between the inferno from which our parents emerged and the light of a precarious post-Holocaust safety that, they hoped, would spare us and their grandchildren from the agonies they endured. ...
At the conclusion of the holiday, a member of the community wrote to me: “Our society needs leaders who are willing to share emotion and vulnerability. We must not be Sparta.” ...
King Henry VIII still looms large in England and worldwide. He’s a frequent visitor to our TV screens in dramas
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Rabbi Shais Rishon grapples with the question of what it means to be an African American Jew. On his mother’s
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“One door isn’t enough,” a voice says at the end of “La Yugular,” a showstopping song on Spanish pop singer
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The former NPR correspondent discusses the Christian Nationalism movement and how its ascension is making Jewish conservatives nervous. ...
Longtime Moment columnist Letty Cottin Pogrebin lovingly describes the origin of a Fire Island congregation dubbed B’nai Saltaire. ...
The Jewish community must extend to the Religious Right the same tolerance that Jews themselves expect and enjoy in American society. Only when Jews treat the Religious Right with respect can we demand pluralism and tolerance in return. ...
The horrific siege and sacking of Jerusalem and the destruction of the First Temple is vividly commemorated every year on Tisha B’Av. ...
“There’s nowhere else in America quite like Dearborn, and nowhere else quite as American,” Jacob Forman observes. ...
URJ president emeritus Eric Yoffie considered contacting his Muslim contacts after October 7, but ultimately chose not to. "I pulled away,” he says. ...
Lois and Arden Shenker of Portland, Oregon, have been collecting spice boxes from around the world since 1957, and now have a collection of 34. ...