November 10, 2015
8:02 am

Illustrative photo of religious and secular children in Israel. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Study: Religious kids not as kind as secular peers

Sample group of Muslim, Christian, Jewish and Buddhist children scores poorly on generosity and altruism

By JTA

November 4, 2015
4:25 pm

The percentage of Jews who said religion is important to them rose from 31 to 35 percent since 2007, the Pew Research Center found. (Shutterstock, via JTA)

57% of US Jews eat pork, and 9 other findings from new Pew study

Latest religiosity survey shows rise in Torah study, slight fall in belief in God

By Uriel Heilman

November 3, 2015
11:27 pm

Adas Israel, Washington's largest Conservative synagogue, launched a popular outdoor instrumental Kol Nidre service. (David Polonsky/JTA)

American Jews growing more religious, poll indicates

While ‘absolute’ certainty in God on decline among Americans, 36% of Jews polled say religion ‘very important’ to them

By Times of Israel staff, AFP and AP

October 25, 2015
2:41 pm

Morgan Freeman meeting with the rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinowitz, during a visit to the site on October 25, 2015. (Courtesy of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation)

God — kinda — descends on Western Wall

Actor Morgan Freeman stops in the land for his National Geographic ‘Story of God’ series

By Jessica Steinberg

October 8, 2015
4:04 pm

God, where are You?

An open letter to the Almighty that asks: After the murders in Israel, how can one continue to worship You?

By Nathan Lopes Cardozo

September 18, 2015
9:58 pm

President Barack Obama, wearing a yarmulke, speaks at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, Friday May 22, 2015, as part of Jewish American Heritage Month. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Do 1% of Americans really think Obama is Jewish?

Poll finds only 39% know the president’s religious denomination; 29% think he’s Muslim

By Gabe Friedman

August 18, 2015
5:35 pm

Rael founder Claude Vorilhon (YouTube screenshot)

Alien-believing group ends support for Zionism

Raelian Movement, which believes extraterrestrials created humans, urges Jews to leave Israel after leader receives ‘prophecy’

August 11, 2015
11:23 am

When morality trumps religion

On Shira Banki and the dilemma of young Orthodox Jews forced to choose between what is commanded and what is right

By Ysoscher Katz

June 22, 2015
1:45 pm

God is relocating

More people are encountering the Divine in spirited discussion over a beer than in the synagogue

By Nathan Lopes Cardozo

June 12, 2015
9:02 am

Assembling reminders

The Parsha The tzitzit ritual fringe is one of many outward signs that tie Jews to their inner angels (Shelach Lecha)

By Jonathan Sacks

May 12, 2015
9:03 pm

General view of the crowd gathered for the canonization mass of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II at St Peter's square at the Vatican on April 27, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Vincenzo Pinto)

Poll: Americans becoming less Christian, more secular

Unaffiliated faith group called ‘nones’ by researchers is 2nd-largest community behind evangelicals; Jewish population sees slight growth

By Rachel Zoll

February 11, 2015
7:37 pm

Over 100 neolithic “cult sites” containing sexual carvings, graves and human-like figures dating back roughly 8,000 years have been found in the southern Israeli Eilat Mountains. (photo credit: Uzi Avner/Daily Mail screen capture)

Ancient sexual ‘cult sites’ discovered near Eilat

Findings, including 8,000-year-old stone phallic structures, provide new insight into desert Neolithic societies

By Times of Israel staff

January 26, 2015
7:42 am

Yarmulkes for sale in Tel Aviv via Shutterstock.

Secular Tel Aviv flirts with spirituality

In the White City, long a bastion of Israel’s nonreligious, Jewish observance is slowly gaining ground

By Debra Kamin

December 26, 2014
1:43 pm

Putting a hand to the stones at the Kotel (photo credit: Leeor Bronis/Times of Israel)

G-d, take 5

From our blogs The Lord works in many ways – and enabling His children to remake the world with technology may be one of them

By Nahum Kovalski

December 12, 2014
3:24 am

Elohim (God the Father) (photo credit: Dina Goldstein)

Deities and the daily grind explored in ‘Gods of Suburbia’

With new project, Israeli-born Canadian photographer Dina Goldstein provokes thought about religion in modern society

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Topic: religion