After growing up in a home of atheists and agnostics, it took decades of spiritual searching for me to discover that there are deep teachings in Judaism, the faith of my people, that can both ground and inspire me.

Judaism is deeply rooted in the idea that everything on this Earth is connected. This gives me great comfort and perspective during tumultuous and cataclysmic times.

Reciting the Shema has brought me closer to my faith, and taught me how to act with love and imagine a better world.

What is the Shema and how can we learn from it?

The Shema is the basis for a Jewish declaration of faith. It gets into the essence of what Jews actually sense about God.

The English word Lord is a poor translation of the actual word for God, which in Hebrew is spelled with four letters (known as the tetragrammaton in the........

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