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More than a thousand rabbis and other Jewish leaders from the U.S. and elsewhere have signed a public letter urging Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza.
The Halachic Left is one of several new Jewish protest groups that have formed after Oct. 7, 2023, to argue for a reclaiming ...
The clergy and lay leaders of Kehillat Israel, an affluent congregation located in Pacific Palisades, California notified ...
The former rabbi of Washington, D.C.'s largest synagogue denounces starvation in Gaza, joining more than 1,000 rabbis and ...
The case originated approximately 15 years ago when the man's mother, residing in Eilat, separated from her Arab partner and ...
One hundred years ago, the Scopes evolution trial mesmerized the country, and the Jews had their own take on it.
I will never forget the hard knock on our door one fateful midnight. Everyone in our house was asleep, and I was jolted awake ...
Judaism is a profoundly this-world-oriented religious tradition. The Hebrew Bible maintains a relative silence about an afterlife, calling its version of the afterlife Sheol — a shadowy pit ...
Hostility to Judaism is not just a product of extreme ideologies. It’s rooted in the power and politics of Western tradition.
Myths are born, they serve a purpose, and they die. When we reside inside them, we swear by them, we invest in them, we think ...
“Judaism is fundamentally countercultural in that it’s all about boundaries.” While Conservative rabbis oversee a great number of “halachic, intensive conversions,” she said, there are ...