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As a frequent pilgrim to the site, I say the religious question is not whether you will get sick. It is whether you will make others sick. And you will.

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/uman-rosh-hashanah-from-spirituality-to-idolatry/

When a country makes tolerance its calling card, its vision of regional peace goes beyond politics to religion - and that perspective is exactly what we need

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israels-peace-with-the-uae-means-peace-between-religions/

Tish’a Be’av and Free Love For the past forty years, and increasingly so from year to year, “free love”, אהבת חינם, is pitched as the message of Tish’a Be’av. Forty years ago,...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/understanding-free-love/

The combined wisdom of dozens of diverse spiritual leaders offers a unified vision of the potential for growth, hope and optimism

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/coronaspection-enhancing-understanding-across-religions-in-corona-times-2/

The former chief sephardic rabbi, who died Sunday of the coronavirus, viewed Judaism as a source of peace and worked to build bridges with other faiths

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/rabbi-eliyahu-bakshi-doron-an-interreligious-appreciation/

Thus far, religion is not faring all that well during the present corona crisis. I am not referring to the fact that religious practice (of all religions) is hindered by the corona-induced closur...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/coronavirus-a-spiritual-message-from-brooklyn/

Religious voices in the political discourse backed corruption and division as if the Torah has nothing to say about any of this

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-elections-have-taught-me-about-the-state-of-judaism/

Hundreds of thousands of Jews, men and women, in Israel and all over the world, are finishing these days the seven and half year cycle of Talmud study, called the “Daf Yomi.” Every day a page...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-talmud-a-message-from-the-editor/

A Hasidic teaching offers a way to see the two holidays as sharing more than winter timing and crass commercialization

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-common-spiritual-vision-for-hanukkah-and-christmas/

A 96 year old Cardinal just passed away – Roger Etchegaray, for many years one of the most important figures in the Vatican. He was a trusted confidante of Pope John Paul II, who sent him on sp...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/remembering-cardinal-roger-etchegaray-a-testimony-of-friendship/