Lavie, an Israeli descended from an unbroken line of 38 rabbis stretching back a thousand years, is torn between rejecting ...

Judaism is not a religion of blind obedience. Indeed, astonishingly in a religion of 613 commandments, there is no Hebrew word that means to obey.

A letter to Trump from the Secure Community Network’s CEO leads Jewish clergy, including several in the Bay Area, to demand a ...

Ancient Israel and Judah before Adler’s chosen period and the postbiblical rabbinic Judaism that emerged after it are, in fact, defined by legal and ideological pluralism. Contemporary scholars assume ...

rabbinical or educational positions,” the court said. In a statement issued through his attorney, Yaacobov disputed the court’s legitimacy under Jewish law and said its process had been “one ...

We call the people rabbis and we call their Judaism "Rabbinic" texts or "Rabbinic" literature.... It is the rabbis who now emerge as a new kind of Judaism, and it is this Judaism that will endure ...

The school will confer diploma, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in subjects ranging from Jewish and religious studies to ethics to ancient manuscripts. The Latin American Rabbinical ...

Rabbi Moshe Herson, 90, who helped establish scores of New Jersey synagogues, died less than month after the death of his ...