Alana Elias Kornfeld, an assistant editor at Beliefnet.com, details a Polish man’s journey from being a neo-Nazi skinhead to his current life as an ultra-Orthodox Jew living in Warsaw. The amazing thing about it though, is how little distance lies between the two points in that journey. No, I don’t think that being an ultra-Orthodox…

That’s the big question being addressed by Hekhsher Tzedek, an initiative led primarily by rabbis in the Conservative movement, most notably Rabbi Morris Allen of Beth Jacob Congregation in Mendota Heights, Minnesota. With new guidelines just released in which they set out the criteria which a business must meet in order to gain this group’s…

That’s the question I was asked this week by the Newsweek and Washington Post editors of the On Faith section, in light of the fact that 33% of Americans admit to racial prejudice and 90% of us claim to believe in God. My immediate response? It’s an ancient tradition! The fact is that one can,…

What do you think about wearing an “Obamica”? How about covering your head with a “McCippah”? Well, now you can. A recent post at Seattlepi.com describes Shmuel Tennenhaus’ new business, VanityKippah.com and it newest products. Take your pick, but you can now wear a kippah (yarmulke in Yiddish), the traditional Jewish head covering, and support…

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