This week’s Torah portion is Vayera: Genesis 18:1 – 22:24 The first Shabbat after daylight standard time always comes as a shock to the system, despite the fact that it occurs every year. Preparing to ...

for most texts in the holy scroll ascribed to Moses, a leader for whom all the world would vote if lost paradise miraculously recompose. Unlike the tohu bohu shrunk by God was the death of Moses, aged ...

Ivanka Trump converted to Judaism after dating her now-husband Jared Kushner. Donald Trump highlighted his daughter's conversion during a recent speech to Israel's parliament. Ivanka Trump recently ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Tomorrow night, along with Jews across America and around the world, I’ll be heading to my synagogue to begin observing Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement.

The Torah tells us in Genesis 2:15: “And God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to work it and to guard it.” Even before Adam acted, he was given a mission. From the beginning, Judaism ...

Throughout this report, religious switching refers to a change between the religious group in which a person says they were raised (during their childhood) and their religious identity now (in ...

Rabbi David Steinhardt leads a congregation of 1,300 families. But somehow he knows Linda Stewart’s name. Stewart, 82, joined Steinhardt’s synagogue, B’nai Torah Congregation in Boca Raton, five years ...

LOS ANGELES — There will be Shabbat services in Pasadena this weekend. That’s far more remarkable than it seems, considering the utter devastation the community faced just days ago. On Tuesday, the ...

The saga of my Jewish conversion began twenty-five years ago, when I got engaged to my first husband. He’d grown up in an Orthodox family, and his parents, my future in-laws, were devastated that he ...

JTA — For many Jews across the United States and the globe, memories of last year’s Shemini Atzeret and Simhat Torah will forever revolve around grim phone alerts and hushed conversations in synagogue ...

On the first anniversary of the most deadly attack on Jews since the Holocaust, rabbis of communities throughout Israel are grappling with how to balance the joy of Simhat Torah with the sadness of ...