I grew up praying to a god in a language I did not understand. In particular, as an observant Conservative Jewish American (that is, “Conservative Jewish, not “conservative, Jewish”), I grew up ...

1. “Shema” is a command: Listen or Hear! It is a call to obedience, but it is more than that. It is an invitation to be ...

Shema Yisrael, or the Shema, is the central affirmation of Judaism. The prayer expresses belief in the singularity of God, that is, in God's oneness and incomparability. Though this opening verse is ...

Apart from the opening statements of the so-called Ten Commandments, there is very little that we would call theology in the Torah. Even descriptions of God are indirect, and there isn’t anything ...

(JTA) — Tens of thousands of Jews around the world joined in a collective recitation of the Shema prayer on Thursday that was broadcast from Jerusalem’s Western Wall to support the more than 130 ...

I’ve always felt we recite the Shema three times a day as a reminder that actions have consequences. After the famous declaration of God’s singularity, the Shema tells us that if we obey God’s ...

Rabby Darby Jared Leigh is the rabbi of Kerem Shalom synagogue in Concord, Massachusetts. He’s a former touring actor with the National Theater for the Deaf and served as a social worker for the New ...

During the Super Bowl, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft took heat on two fronts: one, for owning the team that lost, and two, for airing an ad that quietly infuriated a large portion of the ...