Rachael Pass became pregnant in her second year of rabbinical school and chose to have an abortion. She described her experience as "deeply Jewish" and filled with religious study and ritual. After ...

Kol Nidre in the Field, Sept. 29/30, 1914. “More German than the Germans” is what aptly described many German Jews from the 19th century up to and occasionally including the Hitler Era. At a time when ...

The Shabbat morning service at Congregation Sha’arei Shalom in this suburb of Raleigh has a familiar feel to anyone who grew up in a mainstream American synagogue. Sixty adults and a handful of ...

And we heard that the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati has been fielding calls from rabbis across the country. As they plan their sermons this year, they've been calling the archives' executive ...

Rabbi Israel Goldstein, Congregation Bnai Jeshurun:—Succoth, the Harvest Festival in the Jewish calendar, leads the thought of the Jew back to the agricultural civilization which formed the setting ...

Rabbis say that High Holiday sermons are about enlightening and motivating individual souls for the year ahead, the goal being to help people understand how to live as productive members of their ...

The Forward is publishing this article anonymously to protect the author, who currently teaches at a New York day school, from repercussions at work. A recent survey by the Anti-Defamation League ...

Though I fear that these words are being read by the larger segment of South Florida Jews who have mailed in their ballots already, I’m compelled to express the dismay that I feel towards many ...

Today’s Gospel presents one of the most beautiful examples of the Jewishness of Jesus as he and a scribe perform dueling recitations of the Sh’ma, the most important prayer all Jews recite twice daily ...

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