(RNS) — The Jewish Diaspora Movement comes in response to U.S. Jewish legacy institutions’ unqualified support for Israel and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two thousand years ago, Jews were divided between competing sects all based on the Jewish scriptures, but with different ...

Judaism, like many ancient cultural and spiritual traditions, sees itself as the bearer of a sacred legacy—a divine inheritance rooted in covenant, memory, and mission. This self-understanding is not ...

After years of court battles, Israel will allow women to take the exams men take to become rabbis. It is a step toward expanding women's leadership roles in Orthodox Judaism.

At the core of personal trauma there is often a loss of faith in life’s order and stability. When faced with a crisis, some people turn to religion. Others turn to artistic expression. David Gelernter ...

From gender roles to religious authority, American-trained leaders transformed key debates in Israeli Judaism.

Why does the Torah not begin with the greatest prophet of the Jewish people, the one who revealed the Torah at Sinai – Moshe Rabbeinu? If the essence of Jewish life is the fulfillment of Hashem’s ...

As I help Israel celebrate its 78th birthday, I do so in the shadow of war in Gaza, confrontation with Iran, rising antisemitism not only in the United States but around the world, and deep internal ...

The divisions the ruling class manufactures and depends upon hinder the universal liberation that the Torah envisions.

Our Judaism is broadly defined as the collective historical experience of the Jewish people – a widely and wildly diverse experience that has helped foster our extraordinary resilience. For a long ...

Jewish identity is not supposed to be about holding onto lifestyle traditions; rather, it holds us accountable for the way we ...

The Michigan synagogue that came under attack Thursday is part of Reform Judaism, the largest branch of the religion in North America, which emphasizes progressive values such as social justice and ...