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Byline: Deena Yellin, NorthJersey.com 'The high holidays are a natural time of year for people to gather as a community.' Steven Windmueller Professor emeritus of Jewish Communal Studies at Hebrew [...]

Byline: Your Turn, Rabbi David Levy The American Jewish community has made Facebook and Instagram our communal gathering spaces as we respond to the horrors of the Hamas attack on [...]

In 1968, Rabbi Norman Lamm published an article in the Jewish Life magazine titled 'The New Dispensation on Homosexuality.' Lamm, at the time the rabbi of the West Side Jewish [...]

Byline: Harriet Sherwood Two days after Hamas unleashed a terrorist attack on Israeli civilians in southern Israel, hundreds of British Jews waved Israeli flags and sang the Israeli national anthem, [...]

Byline: Rami Nashashibi, and Rabbi Andrea C. London, Opinion contributors There's a horrific war going on between Israel and Gaza. Many of us have been glued to the nonstop news [...]

Byline: Sydney Page Adam Raskin, a rabbi at Congregation Har Shalom in Potomac, Md., knew how difficult the situation was for Afghan refugees in the Washington region. Since the historic [...]

Byline: Connor Baldwin Social Justice for Palestine hosted their first event of the semester Feb. 17 in Marquette Hall, hosting an open dialogue with Rabbis speaking up against Zionism, the [...]

Byline: Billy Marin Along College Hill Road Hamilton students might have noticed a new friendly face sitting outside of Azel Backus House which is none other than the new Rabbi [...]

Byline: Billy Marin Along College Hill Road Hamilton students might have noticed a new friendly face sitting outside of Azel Backus House which is none other than the new Rabbi [...]

Byline: Billy Marin Along College Hill Road Hamilton students might have noticed a new friendly face sitting outside of Azel Backus House which is none other than the new Rabbi [...]

Byline: Billy Marin Along College Hill Road Hamilton students might have noticed a new friendly face sitting outside of Azel Backus House which is none other than the new Rabbi [...]

Byline: Lindsey Adkison Aug. 15-- Aug. 15--The Rev. John Perry is on a mission of unity. In the months following the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a pastor and local NAACP [...]

Byline: Svetlana Shkolnikova, USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY Family legend has it that Donald Feldstein was just 5 years old when local Jewish leaders began recruiting him to engage [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- The following information was released by Jewish Community Centers Association of North America: Rabbi Tarfon taught: It is not your responsibility to finish the work [of [...]

NEW YORK -- The following information was released by the American Jewish Committee (AJC): In early July, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, Senior Rabbi of Manhattan's Central Synagogue and a member of [...]

Phil Cohen '73 After graduation, former sociology and social science major Phil Cohen '73 sought to learn more about Judaic traditions and the rabbinate. Now as a pulpit rabbi, he [...]

Byline: J.D. Capelouto It had gotten dark outside, and the Kings were running late. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta, were on their way to dinner [...]

Byline: Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Faith leaders must mobilise their communities to fight for economic and social justice by lobbying for policies based on fairness and taking part in rallies, [...]

BOSTON -- In a strongly worded statement posted on their websites, the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston denounced Americans for Peace and [...]

WORCESTER -- On Tisha b'Av, the rabbi cried happy tears. Tisha b'Av marks a communal day of mourning for the Jewish people. It is a day on which we mark [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following information was released by American Jewish World Service (AJWS): Social justice advocates meet with leaders of Congress and the State Department to lobby for three [...]

Byline: Isaac Stanley-Becker Two days after the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history, Vice President Mike Pence bowed his head at a rally on Monday in Michigan as a [...]

On Wednesday, Nov. 14, Rabbi Mike Moskowitz shared stories ranging from debates between first-century Jewish leaders to communities rebuilding in post-World War II Europe and modern struggles for social justice. [...]

London : Movement for Reform Judaism has issued the following press release: The Beutel Seminar is a prestigious ten-day seminar in Jerusalem run by the Anita Saltz International Education Center. [...]

By Julia Anderson anderson14@grinnell.edu It came as a surprise to many students to hear that Rabbi Rob Cabelli would not be returning to Grinnell College this fall. For those involved [...]

NEW YORK, NY: Amudim has issued the following press release: For decades, sexual abuse and addiction were taboo in the Jewish Orthodox sector. Orthodox life is family-centered, and modesty is [...]

Byline: Ruth Eglash JERUSALEM - Ultra-Orthodox rabbis have waged a battle in recent years to stop the Internet from infiltrating their insular communities. Their efforts have included declarations that smartphones [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The following information was released by American Jewish World Service (AJWS): Rabbis from across the United States will serve as Global Justice Fellows of American Jewish [...]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- The following information was released by the Acton Institute: Rev. Ben Johnson The deepest division running through the West is not between Right and Left, or [...]

About a year ago the Orthodox Union commissioned a rabbinic panel of seven prominent Orthodox rabbis to address the topic of female clergy in Orthodox synagogues. After meeting among themselves [...]

David Curiel didn't intend to cause controversy when he decided to become a rabbi in the summer of 2008. At 35, he was happy to have found a fulfilling career. [...]

Byline: Rabbi Yosef Author: Rabbi Yosef Blau Articles in The Commentator about the Confederate flag expressed differing opinions on whether or not the flag was a racist symbol. The given [...]

Byline: Olivia Carlton By Olivia Carlton on December 2, 2016 in Campus News Holly Lane Rabbi Judy Schindler took part in the silent protest held on campus after the Keith [...]

Byline: Kimberly Winston/Religion News Service Rabbi Joshua Stanton (back row, far right) accompanied young Jewish leaders from New York to Kosovo to meet international interfaith leaders in the hope of [...]

Author: Yitzchak Fried At a recent Yeshiva College Tzedek Society event, I heard Rabbi Saul Berman speak about income inequality. The Jewish nation's political economy, he pointed out, began with [...]

Byline: Darren May Author: Darren May Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Mordechai Willig There's one certainty about the Yeshiva University faculty: it is not homogenous. In no area is this more apparent [...]

Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the highly influential leader of the Lithuanian sect of ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi Jews, was known for his unyielding hardline rulings on complicated elements of Jewish law. As [...]

A New York rabbi met with Alan Gross, an imprisoned American, in Havana on Tuesday and described him as upbeat but concerned about family members back home. The rabbi, Arthur [...]

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- In 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a spellbinding sermon to a packed Friday evening service at http://tioh.org/ (TIOH). He was introduced [...]

Byline: Abby Patkin The Justice :: Rabbi speaks on Israeli immigration Brandeis Universityâs Independent Student Newspaper Since 1949, Waltham, MA Last Wednesday, Brandeis Bridges hosted Rabbi Bob Samuels â54 for [...]

Byline: CHICAGO, IL, Apr 01, 2014 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- North America's Reform rabbis took on the sometimes-ignored human costs of two of today's pressing social issues: immigration policy and [...]

BROOKLINE -- The Jewish Women's Archive has unveiled an addition to the online exhibit 'women rabbis.' Originally launched in May 2016, the exhibit was updated this past September to include [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- The following information was released by Chabad-Lubavitch: by Mordechai Lightstone - Lubavitch Headquarters June 17, 2013 Rabbi Yehuda Tzvi Fogelman, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to Worcester, Massachusetts, passed [...]

Byline: Katherine Kelliher John Schuler / Photo Editor Rabbi Susan Talve spoke with a small audience at SLUMA in the keynote speech for the inaugural Oath Week on April 24. [...]

Byline: Dave Schechter, CNN (CNN) -- Forgive those who have sinned against you. Seek forgiveness for your sins against others. Forgive yourself. In a nutshell, that is Yom Kippur, the [...]

Byline: Dave Schechter, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) -- In the days before the Jewish High Holy Days, rabbis across the United States put the finishing touches on the set of [...]