(RNS) — 'If Jewish identity is built only on shared trauma,' said the Australian rabbi who led Chabad of Bondi, 'then we hand ...

In 'Where We Keep the Light,' the swing-state Democrat provides the most intimate look yet at the centrality of Judaism to ...

I want my work to be remembered with one word—schools,” says Yael Foundation co-founder Uri Poliavich. The post Building schools, building the future: Yael Foundation’s global bet on Jewish education ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two thousand years ago, Jews were divided between competing sects all based on the Jewish scriptures, but with different ...

This is a book that will open readers’ hearts and minds to Rabbi Riskin’s vision of Judaism, not just as a religion but as a profound and enduring love story. Many years ago, as a student in Rabbi ...

While working as a camp director for Camp Tawonga in San Francisco, Jamie Simon went on a walk around the camp with a 17-year ...

From a spartan basement synagogue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson became the spiritual leader to tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews across the globe, a man whose counsel ...

Speaking to a class at one of America’s major rabbinical seminaries, I once remarked in passing that “Judaism is built on the idea that God loves us and beckons us to love God back.” Seemingly ...

Tomorrow night, along with Jews across America and around the world, I’ll be heading to my synagogue to begin observing Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. For most of my life, I attended ...

Tribe: An aggregate of people united by a shared story Tribalism: Mistaking story as history in service to the elevation of one tribe over all others Written by Rabbi Rami Shapiro, one of today’s most ...

Josh Kalms, people and wildlife officer for Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust, explores how two ideas from Jewish teachings reflect conservation principles ...