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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A documentary about a cemetery: It may not sound like much of a crowd-pleaser, but the German film In Heaven,

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By Scott Fox A girls’ high school catering to Orthodox Jews in the little town of Bricelyn, Minnesota, population 340.

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Moment Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the inaugural Elephant in the Room essay contest. This year’s question,

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by Emily Goldberg Judaism is ever-evolving, a religion that has for centuries faced the challenges of modernization. With young people

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By Scott Fox Food is perhaps one of the “greyest” aspects of Jewish life today. The Torah instructs us to

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by Erica Shaps I am not a rabbinical student. My talit was made in Israel and I recently celebrated my

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by Erica Shaps While I gaped at my surroundings with shock and wonder, my Yom Kippur hosts smiled at me ...

by Maddie Ulanow It’s always interesting when, on a particular Friday night, we get a new high turnout of students

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Back in 2003 I took a bus from downtown Jerusalem to my home in the northern suburb of Ramot, a

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What does it mean to be Jewish today? What do Jews bring to the world? Mel Brooks, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elie Wiesel, Itzhak Perlman, Ruth Wisse, Geraldine Brooks and other thoughtful Jewish Americans tell Moment what they think. ...

By Adina Rosenthal There’s a new, up-and-coming Hasidic hip-hop artist on the block. Nosson Zand is a Boston-born musician who

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