Professor Gruenwald’s lecture, titled “Ritual & Religion,” analyzes how ritual observance in Christianity and Judaism differ, but offer relatively similar functions. Gruenwald primarily discusses ...

I am writing this article from Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel, the Holy Land. We visit Israel twice a year to be with my son, daughter-in-law and 2-year-old granddaughter. My son moved to Israel ...

“My wife and I have been members of a church for many years and have attended Sunday services as often as possible, which is we rarely miss them. The ritual of our early Sunday service with the coffee ...

Our lives are redolent with rituals, from personal to promulgated, from silly to serious, from religious to civic and secular. In The Politics of Ritual, Molly Farneth casts a determined eye on the ...

Northwestern’s diverse community includes people who celebrate many religions and traditions. We write today to remind you of Northwestern’s Policy on Academic Accommodations for Religious Observance ...

Rituals are religious or solemn ceremonies consisting of a set of actions performed in a specific order. We all follow rituals – the ritual of celebrating a birthday or a wedding; the rituals that ...

American Reform Jewry was urged today to determine “minimal standards” for observances of all Judaism’s religious ceremonies and to establish standards to make religious observance expressive of the ...

(AP) – Ahead of training camps which took place in March, the federation made clear it would not change the schedule for meals and practices to accommodate players who want to fully observe the ...

As custodians of ancient wisdom, Egyptian priests explored ritual, science, philosophy, metaphysics, and spirituality unlike ...