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Take the history of the Hebrews, Israelites, and Jews in its entirety, from the biblical times until the present, there has been no single attitude or rule regarding intermarriage.
Continue readingThe belief a person holds with respect to the question of after existence-that is, whether there is human existence after death and the form it takes-is intrinsically related to the particular religion to which one adheres.
Continue readingI am convinced the very survival of a modern Jewish community is dependent upon all liberal Jews arriving at the understanding the Polydoxy is the fundamental principle that underlies their various Judaisms.
Continue readingIn the beginning is the ontology of mind. To understand the present crisis of existence of the Jewish collectivity, which I have elsewhere termed the “silent holocaust,”and its relation to the Enlightenment with its consequent Emancipation, we must being with…
Continue readingIn a Journal article entitled “Two Concepts of Shabbat” (Fall 1987), Alvin Reines argues in favor of a notion of Shabbat which he terms “State-of-Being Shabbat” over the normative Shabbat, which he terms “Seventh-Day Shabbat.”
Continue readingDownload Printable Version In a discussion of Rosh Hashanah, the holiday that symbolizes time and the inevitable changes that accompany time’s passage, it is appropriate to discuss a somewhat paradoxical phenomenon frequent among the Jews. This is the resistance to…
Continue readingGuilt is a pervasive feature of human existence. It is a corrosive emotion that consumes life’s meaning.
Continue readingThe purpose of these articles on the facts of religious holidays in the Jewish calendar is twofold.
Continue readingThe festival of Shevuot is an illustration of the evolutionary principle that a religious community survives only by periodic changes of its festivals and rituals, and theses in turn survive only by developing new and relevant meanings and functions.
Continue readingIf justification were required for the re-creation of the Chanukah to serve the needs of our generation, critical study of the origins of Chanukah support this right.
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