Search results
6 days ago · Gender and Judaism. Jewish women, like their gentile counterparts, have been constricted by systems of communal, governmental, and domestic patriarchy, yet they have nonetheless played an important role in Jewish history and in the history of global feminism. LGBTQ Jews have likewise played important roles in modern history and culture.
3 days ago · Abrahamic religions make up the largest major division in the study of comparative religion. By total number of adherents, Christianity and Islam comprise the largest and second-largest religious movements in the world, respectively. [page needed] Judaism is the smallest of the three major Abrahamic religions.
4 days ago · Hasidic Judaism is a Jewish faith community that dates back to the mid-1700s. It started in Medzhybizh, in what is today western Ukraine, and, with its emphasis on prayer, meditation, closeness to God, and kabbalistic teachings, ushered in a spiritual awakening that swept the Jewish world. By the early 1800s, more than half of Eastern Europe ...
5 hours ago · This paper considers the relationship between exile and migration as reflected in a case study of biblical exegesis in modern Jewish thought. I consider the place of the biblical figure of Joseph in an early text by Léon Askenazi (also known as Manitou), a North African kabbalist and French intellectual, and a key spiritual leader of Francophone Jewry in the second half of the twentieth ...
2 days ago · Yemenite Jews, also known as Yemeni Jews or Teimanim (from Hebrew: יהודי תימן, romanized : Yehude Teman; Arabic: اليهود اليمنيون ), are Jews who live, or once lived, in Yemen, and their descendants maintaining their customs. Between June 1949 and September 1950, the overwhelming majority of the country's Jewish population ...
2 days ago · Creating a New Diaspora Judaism – Part 1. By Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Ph.D. In some Jewish circles all over the American Diaspora, there have been the bubblings of new approaches to what the Judaism of the next generation could be. A BRIEF TOUR OF THE BROAD HORIZON: WORLD-WIDE HYPER-CRISIS.
6 days ago · "The social structure of medieval Jewry was dominated by men who did not regard women as sharing equal status, and who took responsibility for the entire community, women included.
