Israel’s Chief Rabbinate says it does not have a list of Diaspora rabbis whose testimony it accepts, despite turning down the testimony of the rabbis of immigrants wishing to clarify their Jewish and ...

Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a ceremony of the Israeli police for the Jewish new year at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem on September 22, 2022.

Rabbi Chanina, the vice-high priest said: Pray for the welfare of the government, for were it not for the fear it inspires, every man would swallow his neighbor alive (Avot 3:2). “Hereby it is ...

Luna is now over a year old, and for Rabbi Bernstein, “she’s going to be the light in our dark sky” during this difficult ...

Harvard forces a Jewish student group to hide its menorah each night after its lighting over fears of vandalism that “won’t look good” for the Ivy League school, the rabbi of Harvard Chabad said. “On ...

The author of “When Bad Things Happen to Good People” left a legacy of personal kindness and comforting theology. Instead, the book was, like Kushner’s rabbinate, a call to action. As he told an ...

The yartzeit of Rabbi Zvi Kogan HY”D, the Shliach who was murdered in the United Arab Emirates, will be marked on Monday with ...

(JTA) — Rabbi Harold Kushner, one of the most influential congregational rabbis of the 20th century whose works of popular theology reached millions of people outside the synagogue, has died. Kushner, ...

At first glance, this verse might seem like a simple statement of divine satisfaction with creation. However, beneath these words lies a profound truth about the nature of existence itself. According ...