Rabbi Julius Berman, who led the Orthodox Union and a myriad of other prominent Jewish communal organizations across the ...

With Passover just a week away, I made a trip to the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn to do some holiday shopping. Borough Park is one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities in the world, ...

This form of Judaism doesn’t worship a God. It’s called Humanistic Judaism, and it was founded by Rabbi Sherwin Wine in the Detroit area in 1963. The Judaism practice, which is grounded on solidarity, ...

A day before Succot, a bunch of 18-year-old girls and boys sat on a lawn under the trees in south Tel Aviv to study Kohelet ...

(New York Jewish Week) — A haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, leader once joked to me that “few people leave Orthodoxy, but every one of them writes a book about it.” It was a sardonic comment about popular ...

The program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...