As a community rabbi, director of a popular Jewish study center that attracts Jews from all backgrounds, and an officer of the largest rabbinic public policy organization in America, I am very well ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People cheer as a vehicle carrying hostages released by Hamas drives toward an army base in Ofakim, southern Israel, on Nov. 26, ...
Rabbi Jay Michaelson’s recent essay in the Forward on Judaism and the war in Gaza is thoughtful and engaging, but it falls into the trap of oversimplification. His approach is to frame Jewish opinion ...
In a new study, researchers introduce the dual threat model of antisemitism, which highlights the central role of perceived ...
I recently attended an interfaith conference in Rome, where an unnamed Jewish Professor startled the audience by declaring: ...
Holocaust distortion is on the rise. It does not always appear as outright denial of the murder of six million Jews. Increasingly, it takes subtler forms — reshaping the historical record in ways that ...
Moses Receiving the Ten Commandments by Marc Chagall. Chaim Lindenbaum, a 77-year-old man from Haifa, was diagnosed with aggressive leukemia in 2022. Doctors said the grandfather could only survive ...
It was Simchat Torah, a Jewish holiday that celebrates the completion of the annual cycle of the reading of the Torah. The reading then begins again on the same day and is cause for joyous celebration ...
Judaism is a “community of interpretation” rather than a community of common dogmas. In celebrating foundational events of our communal history, we describe the past in light of who we are, what our ...
People cheer as a vehicle carrying hostages released by Hamas drives toward an army base in Ofakim, southern Israel, on Nov. 26, 2023. Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images David L. Graizbord, ...
(The Conversation) — Some 16 million people worldwide identify as Jewish — and more than 7 million of them live in Israel. The country is home to more than 2 million people who are not Jewish, as well ...