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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By Daniela Enriquez Elections are around the corner and once again the question presents itself—are Jews by nature Democrats? That

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By Rebecca Borison While I grew up at a Jewish summer camp playing Gaga, kids growing up in slightly (read:

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by Rebecca Borison Israeli President Shimon Peres recently announced that he has cancelled his trip to London for the Olympics’

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by Rebecca Borison This past Friday, I turned off my iPhone at approximately 7 pm and prepared myself for three

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By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil From Switzerland’s ban on minarets, to France’s ban on headscarves, and the controversy that raged over

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By Martin Berman-Gorvine In this Passover season, consider the plight of Jewish women whose marriages have ended but whose (former)

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INDEPENDENT Historically, the religious affiliation of a governmental leader has never been an issue for the Jewish people, as long

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The incident repeats itself with small variations. A rabbi somewhere in America writes to ask if I’ll come speak to

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R. Justin Stewart may not be the first artist you’d expect to be behind a work called “Distorting (a messiah

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Breaking news in “people you didn’t know were Jewish”: Darth Vader. Yes, some Lucasphiles say that Darth Vader’s chestplate (right),

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By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil Jerry Falwell “stamped out” anti-Semitism in the Republican Party, said Michael Sean Winters, a reporter for

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