This midrash encourages a focus on the present moment and fulfilling our responsibilities before rushing toward something ...

Since Israel invaded Gaza in 2023, far-right settlers have set their sights on the Strip—and they have no intention of ...

In this week's letters to the editors, readers are still duking it out over the Alameda County treasurer's move to divest from Caterpillar.

The volatile Donald Trump seems an unlikely harbinger of peace in West Asia, but he might be the only hope to rein in an ...

Avineri places Herzl’s path to Zionism firmly within a more general rendition of 19th century Jewish history. Zionism emerged out of European nationalism – with the Bible as a backdrop. It was often a ...

Like orthodox Jews imagining the messianic age ... As a well-known Second Temple rabbi might have put it, this is (very) old wine poured into a new wineskin. If the long and tortured history of the ...

"Trump is not God and cannot take away Palestinians' inherent dignity or steal their land for a real estate deal," Rabbi Yosef Berman said.

But Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is as innovative in breaking traditions as he is in rebuilding them as a Jewish spiritual and congregational leader. How Lau-Lavie became who he is now and where he ...

More than 350 rabbis came together to place a full-page ad in the New York Times, voicing their opposition to President ...

The country is not known to have had a resident rabbi servicing an active Jewish community there since 1918, the year it gained independence from what was then the Kingdom of Denmark. The ...

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg of Masorti Judaism UK is likely the highest-profile European Jewish leader to express misgivings about Israel’s war in Gaza. (JTA) — The head rabbi of Britain’s ...