For decades, liberal denominations have permitted women to be ordained. Orthodox Judaism, however, has largely prohibited it. Yet attitudes toward women’s study of rabbinic texts are changing.

We believe it is time for the Jewish community, and for New York, to reconsider how we help our loved ones live fully, and ...

And yet, as the legend goes, the oil burned for eight days, giving them time to clean, repair, and rededicate the Temple. The ...

I was born two days before the general of the army, Douglas MacArthur, one of my maternal grandmother’s numerous cousins ...

From day school to charter school, summer trips to youth programs, the author discovered that being Jewish is as much about ...

The first Jew, Avraham, was named for his role as a father. His original name, “Avram,” means “mighty father.” Later, Hashem ...

Rioters outside Park East synagogue in New York recently chanted genocidal screeds such as “There is only one solution: intifada revolution” and “we don’t want no two states, we want all of it.” But ...

At an East Galveston beach, Mari Barkhausen is waist-deep in the cool, brown water. After repeating Hebrew blessings, she is immersed once, twice. When she emerges from the water a third time, she is ...

IMPACT-se finds that Greek schoolbooks teach about the Holocaust in a fair way, while a problematic passage about Israel's ...

Bread is one of Judaism’s oldest civic technologies. It binds memory to practice, heritage to the week’s rhythms.

As DNA tests become more common, people who "feel" Jewish are discovering hidden ancestry and converting through American ...