A grand plan to publish an elucidated English edition of Torah Or and Likkutei Torah is being undertaken in memory of R’ Gedaliah Shaffer OBM, whose yartzeit is on the 17th of Adar.

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I commute on the bus to Jerusalem, passing the Temple Mount to my West, and am fascinated that, unlike thousands of my ...

Rabbi Andrea L. Weiss, Ph.D., a Reform rabbi, biblical scholar and educator who helped shape generations of Jewish clergy through her work at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and who ...

Still, the biblical text is less forgiving. Moses descends the mountain, shatters the tablets, destroys the calf, and ...

Young Americans have been turning away from religion in recent years. But North Point Community Church in Atlanta draws thousands of enthusiastic Gen Zers each week — in part because it embraces ...

Reap the health benefits of Shabbat: Unplug for a set time every week and make it a discipline. Create a Friday night ritual.

It’s not hard to see what they are saying. On the Jewish calendar, this past Shabbat was Shabbat Zachor, the Shabbat of ...

In synagogue a few days ago, while waiting for the evening prayer to start, we got into a discussion about Mishloah Manot (giving food to friends and family).

The heads of the Reform and Conservative movements respond with dismay to legislation that would penalize egalitarian prayer.

Hundreds of observant Jews convened at a Manhattan synagogue on Sunday to foster an alternative to the prevailing right-wing discourse about Israeli and American politics in the Orthodox world. But ...

The pioneering online synagogue Sim Shalom dedicated to inclusive, musical, and progressive Jewish worship offers ...