Weiss died on Tuesday, surrounded by family at her home in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, following a year-long battle with ...

The fifth weekly biblical portion in Deuteronomy is Shoftim, “Judges.” The rabbis who were descendants of the ancient Pharisees viewed this portion as supporting the Pharisees’ views, rather than ...

A person who converts to Judaism becomes a Jew is just as Jewish as someone born into Judaism. There is a good precedent for this. Ruth, the great-great grandmother of King David, was a convert to ...

I watch my toddler pore over her children’s Bible, tracing the illustrations with her chubby finger and retelling herself the stories in her sweet, ...

Rabbis and cantors shouldn't have to seek outside training to flourish in their work, writes a cantor and licensed social worker.

Rabbi Andrea Weiss, a former provost of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion who made history as the first woman to ordain rabbis in the Reform movement, has died.

When most people think of Israel, especially Christians in Ghana, Nigeria and several East African countries, they imagine a deeply religious nation .

By Steve RabeyReligion Correspondent For a century, American Jews have had an outsized role in American comedy. From Groucho Marx to Jerry Seinfeld, Jackie Mason to Jon Stewart, Joan Rivers to Gilda ...

A shared trait of most religious and philosophical systems is the individual or communal journeying towards a specific lofty ...

Instead, he reframed the entire question, offering two coequal expectations: “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. This is the first and greatest ...

A grand plan to publish an elucidated English edition of Torah Or and Likkutei Torah is being undertaken in memory of R’ Gedaliah Shaffer OBM, whose yartzeit is on the 17th of Adar.

From ancient Persia to today, Purim shows how prayer, unity, and courage shape Jewish history and identity.