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Julius Berman, Orthodox rabbi whose influence spanned secular and observant Jewish institutions, dies at 90

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

Rabbi to Explore Juncture of ‘Secular and Jewish’ in Tucson Talk

Kornfeld was ordained by the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism in 2009. She holds a master’s degree and ...

Jewish learning on the rise in Tel Aviv

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 ...
American Enterprise Institute

Jewish Continuity

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, ...
The Forward

A NYC conference celebrates the cultural creativity of formerly Orthodox Jews

(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 ...
TwinCities.com

Q&A: Minnesota’s first Humanistic rabbi on God, justice and human responsibility

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, ...
Smith College

Jewish Studies

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 ...