Spirituality
'Jews are Magic': Museum exhibit explores Jewish fascination with occultism
Jews Are Magic,” opening this month at YIVO’s Manhattan headquarters, explores the Jewish fascination with mysticism, fortune telling, amulets, psychics, and occult practices.
Human rights group honors Jews, Christians, and Jerusalem
Sinking, spooky feeling? A subsonic sound may be at fault
David Kosak on cultivating hope as a discipline in a digitally saturated, emotionally complex world
Parashat Chukat: Protest against death
Judaism has a surprising perspective on death.
This Jerusalem beit midrash ordains women as Orthodox rabbis
Rabbi Herzl Hefter, dean of Beit Midrash Har’el, ordains both men and women as Orthodox rabbis – and says that the Torah ‘has to be real.’
Parashat Korach: Envy, interests, and disputes
People make the mistakes of their lives because of envy, lust, or pursuit of honor.
The Maggid of Melbourne: Praying for peace
The prayer is a new composition in its own right.
Parashat Shelach: Moses’ example of leadership
Gates of the heart: Gates in Torah and Judaism
Our tradition is rich with gates: Gates of Repentance, Gates of Prayer, Gates of Righteousness, Gates of introspection and reflection.
Parashat Beha'alotcha: Freedom comes with responsibility
A slave is not required to take responsibility for his actions, but a free man is required to be accountable for his actions, for those around him, for his future
Parashat Naso: Coping with exposure to the world's impurities
Being exposed to any kind of behavior has an effect on us.
Vatican tightens procedures on supposed 'supernatural events'
Friday's document mentioned, as an example of past confusion, alleged supernatural appearances by the Virgin Mary in Amsterdam in the 1940s and 1950s which were eventually ruled invalid in 2020.
'Why are your mercies a fist?': A look at Breslov hassidim's music scene
Breslov musicians are on the vanguard of original Hebrew music, the author says.
