A court decision allowing Israeli women to take the Chief Rabbinate’s exams is the latest sign of growing recognition for ...

Lag BaOmer bonfires and picnics have been adopted by some with a fervor as if Moses himself had commanded them. Mimunah is celebrated as if Judaism can’t do without it. More recently, Ashkenazic Jews ...

Israel's High Court of Justice on Wednesday ordered the Israeli government to develop a policy within 45 days to enforce military conscription for yeshiva students, including criminal sanctions ...

Female rabbis have staked a claim to a Judaism that is fully inclusive and respectful of the values of all its adherents.

Israel’s war on Gaza during the past two years, along with its assaults on the West Bank, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, and Syria, ...

Jew in the City’s new Hollywood Bureau of the Jewish Institute for Television & Cinema and Marcus Freed’s Jewish Filmmakers ...

“The purpose of prayer is to get into a habit of building a connection with God,” Rabbi Miller told us. “We can ask God for ...

A surge in LGBTQ rabbinical students reflects long-delayed access and a changing model of spiritual leadership, raising ...

Hundreds of Israeli soldiers have submitted requests for early retirement, deepening the military’s manpower crisis, Israeli ...

The sky in “sunny” San Diego was atypically cloudy as it drizzled on a family gathered last Friday to bury its 92-year-old matriarch in the southwestern city’s only stand-alone Jewish cemetery. The ...

Developments on the controversial bill had previously been halted in the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee ...