Religion

Can’t-miss activities in and around New York to make your Chol HaMoed anything but boring

With the vast array of kosher wines available, it’s no wonder so many are bewildered about what to drink at…

This charming story, based on true events, appeared in the March-April 1963 issue of Jewish Life, the precursor to Jewish…

Nowadays, no one who keeps kosher would ever consider buying meat without certification. No one would say, ‘well, this looks…

How day schools are doubling down on student cell phone use

The study aims to develop a more robust and wide-ranging understanding of the different ways and reasons people leave Orthodoxy.

When those raised Orthodox don’t stay Orthodox, it is seen—and indeed deeply felt—as a communal failure, as if one of…

Parental religious misalignment—when a husband and wife have varying levels of observance and faith—is not exactly an unknown phenomenon in…

The feeling of hypocrisy this engendered—and “secondary consequences” such as bullying from peers—eventually became a factor in their decision to…

What the study reveals about relationships with religious figures

. . . the experience of leaving [the community] is not binary. Very often, connections remain that are real, important…