Six of Maharat’s alumnae have founded their own communities, in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Haifa, Tel Aviv, London and Paris.

Part 1 of 2. Welcome to the experiences of a rav of 43 years who has served in “kiruv”/outreach settings as well as in major cities. What may sound funny to Judaic Insiders can be tragic to Outsiders ...

Housing Minister Yitzchak Goldknopf, the chairman of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party, welcomes the hostage deal ...

No surprise to see Trump invite an Orthodox rabbi to Washington, D.C., even while they make up a small percentage of Jews in America.

It will not be recognized by Orthodox Judaism because it is a nullity. (However, since Conservative Judaism’s youth movement, USY, now is open to inter-dating, your children would have access to ...

But it has come as a huge price. On this last point, he is emphatic, and it is central to his analysis about the challenge confronting non-Orthodox Judaism: “The logic of the market reduced all ...

The Hasidim, or "pious ones" in Hebrew, belong to a special movement within Orthodox Judaism, a movement that, at its height in the first half of the nineteenth century, claimed the allegiance of ...

The Kansas City Section of The National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) and Congregation Beth Shalom will host Dr. Michal Raucher at its first Repro Shabbat event on Feb. 21 and 22.

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival ... from Reform to Conservative to Orthodox — focus on the same theme of bringing light ...