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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The Argentinian rabbi talks about Jewish-Catholic relations and his longtime friendship with the current pope. By Josh Tapper For many

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Sometime in my mid-teens, I asked to join the CYO basketball team at the parish church in my New Jersey hometown. For the uninitiated, CYO stands for Catholic Youth Organization, and it was the group to which my two best friends belonged. Jimmy Lyons lived across the street from me, ...

Almost 200 years after Rebbe Nachman’s death, his followers flock to a once-closed Soviet town to celebrate Rosh Hashanah. by

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Reza Aslan is an Iranian American scholar of religions, whose internationally acclaimed books include No god But God and Beyond

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Last week, Moment published interviews with two graduates of Yeshivat Maharat, the first school to train Orthodox female clergy. Today,

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Naomi Schaefer Riley, a former Wall Street Journal editor and writer, is the author most recently of ‘Til Faith Do

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Yesterday, Moment published an interview with Ruth Balinsky Friedman, who will graduate next month from the first school to train

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In June the inaugural class of Yeshivat Maharat, the first institution to train Orthodox women as spiritual leaders and halakhic

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“There’s a notion out there that the Tea Party is racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim,” says David Spielman, the Campaign Coordinator for

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Shavuot, the holiday that marks the receiving of the Torah and the annual cheesecake overload, begins on the evening of

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Genesis Secularized I’m delighted that Jon Levenson has good things to say about my book, The Book of Genesis: A

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This weekend marked the fifth annual Gender and Human Rights lecture and conference at Brandeis University. Named for Diane (Dina)

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