Rachael Pass became pregnant in her second year of rabbinical school and chose to have an abortion. She described her experience as "deeply Jewish" and filled with religious study and ritual. After ...

Amy-Jill Levine, who teaches New Testament and Jewish studies at Vanderbilt, is the author of The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus and coeditor of The Jewish Annotated ...

The Shabbat morning service at Congregation Sha’arei Shalom in this suburb of Raleigh has a familiar feel to anyone who grew up in a mainstream American synagogue. Sixty adults and a handful of ...

A preaching mission of laymen and rabbis who will visit the more than 300 Reform congregations in the country “to strengthen the cause of Liberal Judaism” was authorized by the Executive Board of the ...

A version of this article appeared in Yiddish here. The notion of church congregants listening to a sermon in Yiddish may sound like something out of a comedy routine. But in 1882, a Jewish man by the ...

Kol Nidre in the Field, Sept. 29/30, 1914. “More German than the Germans” is what aptly described many German Jews from the 19th century up to and occasionally including the Hitler Era. At a time when ...

Book Description: Many scholars have focused on contemporary sources pertaining to the Nazi persecution and mass murder of Jews between 1933 and 1945--citing dated documents, newspapers, diaries, and ...

Though I fear that these words are being read by the larger segment of South Florida Jews who have mailed in their ballots already, I’m compelled to express the dismay that I feel towards many ...

In an unusual move, a group of influential Orthodox Jewish leaders has written a letter explicitly urging American rabbis to speak during this year's High Holiday sermons on the importance of ethical ...

As the Jewish High Holidays approach this weekend, some rabbis have requested sermons from the time of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic for inspiration as to what they will say. And we heard that the ...