It's just as the old joke goes: a priest, a pastor, and a rabbi walk into a bar. Except it wasn't a bar the religious power trio walked into last Tuesday. It was The Sheen Center for Thought and ...

Rabbi Moshe Yitzchok Gurkow, the dedicated longtime Shliach to Boston, MA and Mashpia passed away on Friday. Levaya on Sunday morning in Crown Heights. Full Story Rabbi Moshe Yitzchok Gurkow, ...

Rabbi Kalman Ber, the newly-elected Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel, has put forward his vision of unity, and declared that the Chief Rabbinate belongs to the entire nation of Israel. Speaking to ...

Top Netanya rabbi Kalman Ber was chosen to be Israel’s next Ashkenazi chief rabbi Thursday, following a year of delays and a bitter battle for the 10-year term. Ber beat out Petah Tikva Chief ...

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In the Midrash, it was told that a philosopher asked Rabbi Hoshaya why, if circumcision is so important, God did not create man already circumcised. The fact that humans are born uncircumcised ...

A Jewish comedian’s planned production was also booted from space owned by the Catholic Church. A theatrical production based on the memoir of an ex-Hasidic transgender rabbi and activist, set ...

The Matriarchs of Jewish history — Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah — have officially gained equality with the Patriarchs in Conservative Judaism, thanks to Rabbi Joel Rembaum, the emeritus ...

The IDF announced on Tuesday that Major (Res.) Rabbi Aviram Hariv, a resident of Dolev and a rabbi at the Dolev girls' high school, fell in battle in Lebanon. Rabbi Aviram, 43, was the Deputy ...

Matt Cohen was ready to be done. As his bar mitzvah approached, even his rabbi could tell he was finished with Hebrew school and Jewish learning for the time being. He celebrated his bar mitzvah ...

The rabbi predicted that Sinwar and his associates would meet a gruesome end akin to the hanging of Haman, the enemy of the Jews in the story of Purim. Hamas official Yahya Sinwar joins list of ...