In an unusual move, a group of influential Orthodox Jewish leaders has written a letter explicitly urging American rabbis to speak during this year's High Holiday sermons on the importance of ethical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Rabbi Norman Lamm, zt”l, circa 1990’s. Streams of congregants, unbelievable as it sounds today, flocked to shul on Shabbatot simply to hear the sermons of Rabbi Norman Lamm, zt”l. They remain ...

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 ...

There is a vast difference between what I call “good speech” about others and gossip (l’shon ha-ra – the evil tongue). The former builds ethical relationships and the latter destroys them. There are ...

I have posted the four sermons I delivered on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur this season at Temple Israel of Hollywood. For those interested, they may be accessed by ...

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 ...

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 ...