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Randy Schaffer met wife Mollie in 1967. They’d been together ever since. In the end, only the Guadalupe River's raging waters could separate them.
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One in seven Jews worldwide are strictly Orthodox, or Haredi. It's a population of roughly 2 million out of 15 million Jews, ...
After sparking religious backlash, the Israel Antiquities Authority agrees to rebury ancient Western Wall stones, affirming their status as sacred relics subject to Jewish law, not museum pieces.
A new, post-Oct. 7 Judaism would be a messy mixture of the mystical, the rational, the national, the religious, the secular, the Ashkenazic and the Sephardic.
With origins dating back to the 19th century, Messianic Judaism has continued to hold a contentious spot in the religious world.
Has Judaism experienced net gains or losses from religious switching? In Israel and the U.S., the proportion of the overall populations that have either switched into or switched out of Judaism is ...
The Union for Reform Judaism’s Taste of Judaism classes, taught by Temple Emanu-El’s Rabbi Batsheva Appel, will be offered in Sierra Vista on Thursdays, Aug. 22 and 29 and Sept. 5; at the Tucson ...
American Reform Judaism, since the nineteen-eighties, has recognized “patrilineal Jews,” but the Orthodox and Conservative denominations do not.
Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year in Judaism and follows Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The name of the holiday translates from Hebrew to English as the Day of Atonement, and Jewish ...
No masturbation, sex twice a week, unique sex toys: An exhibition at the Jewish Museum Berlin sheds light on the sex lives of Jews.