Religion & Beliefs

Mapping Exhibit Too Controversial for Chicago’s Jewish Museum

Chicago’s Jewish museum, the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, is currently showing an exhibit called…

Haredi’s Most Wanted: The 5 Worst Offenders

Israel has no civil marriage or divorce, which means that every Jewish Israeli is at…

Does Fine-Tuning Prove God Exists?

There is a version of the Argument from Design, one of the traditional metaphysical arguments…

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Throws On His Burqa

I was both amused and irritated by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's recent article at the Huffington…

How To: Help Flood Victims from Iowa to China

Jews are used to a flood story with a happy ending: The animals march onto…

The Problem with Charity

When Zimbabwe recently cracked down on CARE—a leading humanitarian organization focused on global poverty which…

IMing Y-Love

Y-Love, aka Yitz Jordan, is an African American convert to Orthodox Judaism and one of…

Meet Your Meat: Rubashkin Scandal Grows Ever-More Rancid

Since federal agents conducted an immigration raid on the Postville, IA, AgriProcessors meatpacking plant on…