Tag: judaism

In Judaism, on Yom Kippur, we ask G-d to forgive the sins we committed against him, but in order to be forgiven for wrongs we’ve committed against others, we have to offer our sincere apologies and ask for forgiveness.

Ask a Jew: Why are there different sects of Judaism? How did these changes come to pass?

On Thursday Temple Beth Shalom will launch a three-week introduction to Judaism class.

It’s one thing for liberal Jewish congregations to accept intermarried couples fully into the fold. It’s quite another for rabbis to model intermarriage, which plenty of American Jews still view as religio-cultural kryptonite.

Bubbe is the reason we are observant Jews. When our children were just promises in the distant future, my husband and I struggled to figure out how we wanted to raise them.

The Sh’ma, as it sometimes called, is the essence of Judaism, so why were so many non-Jews saying it? Because of one atrocious act of hate, a swastika painted on the temple sometime during High Holy Day services, because of that we were all here together.

I vividly remember objecting when our twin daughters were about 8 or 9 years old and asked about a Harry Potter themed b’not mitzvah (b’not is the plural of bat). I argued, “Absolutely not. Harry Potter has nothing to do with Judaism.