Religion, for billions of people, is a vital way of making sense of their life, and of giving purpose and meaning to existence. Through ethical and...
According to the estimate of Deming (2015, 326-27), “Christianity is the world’s largest religion, encompassing a third of the world’s population or more than 2.2 billion...
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust The Jews have faced great challenges, foremost of which are anti-Semitism which led to persecutions like the Holocaust, Zionism, and the Arab-Israeli...
Just like most world religions, Judaism has many denominations (sects, kinds, forms, or movements). For purposes of presentation, we classify these forms of Judaism into three...
The following are some of the basic Jewish rituals and major festivals (see Molloy 2010, 323-330; Matthews 2010, 270-74 for a thorough discussion of these rituals...
The basic doctrines and practices of Judaism are mainly defined by the Torah, which contains the commandments Moses received from God on Mount Sinai. The most...
The Tanakh The sacred writings of the Jews are divided into the primary (or foundational) and the supplementary ones. The primary ones are those found in...
