As Passover 2012 ends, let's finally break the bonds, and liberate ourselves from Top Rabbis lists. America has enough idols. Let's smash this one (the list, not the rabbis).
Shira Hirschman Weiss | Posted 03.11.2012
Maybe religion is about exploration and I am Magellan on a long voyage to stake my great straits. However, my journey has been far from great, or nice and straight.
Posted 11.28.2011
Thousands of Jewish leaders from over 75 countries posed for a holy photo shoot at the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries ...
Scott Perlo | Posted 12.02.2011
All of the pro-Israel, pro-peace activists and thinkers I know are under constant barrage of attempts to prove that they are faking their authentic and deep connection to Israel, that they are somehow the enemy itself.
Rabbi Jason Miller | Posted 11.19.2011
As social media increasingly become part of our daily lives, people will find new ways to interact with religion and spirituality.
Cindy Rodriguez | Posted 10.19.2011
In the U.S., the debate about same-sex marriages has created a dividing line in the so-called culture wars, but in Jerusalem, where Orthodox Jews do not accept homosexuality, it feels like America, circa 1952.
Rabbi Andrea Myers | Posted 07.23.2011
The phrase "It Gets Better," essential as it is, leaves me wanting more. It shouldn't just get better. Colds get better. Life should get beautiful
Posted 07.04.2011
More and more members of the world's faith communities are taking to the internet and social media in order to connect with fellow believers. Among th...
Posted 05.25.2011
By Michele Chabin Religion News Service JERUSALEM -- Nearly 100 American Orthodox rabbis have signed a letter demanding that the conversions they per...
David_Brock | Posted 05.25.2011
Glenn Beck has a habit of supporting his arguments by using the work of known anti-Semitic and white supremacist individuals. And now 400 rabbis are speaking up.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011
We all like to be loved. We all desire to be admired. But we Rabbis must resist the urge for mainstream approval and promote the interests of our people at whatever price and serve as lights unto the nations at whatever cost.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011
The days of the rabbi as a weighty moral conscience are behind us. The rabbi as irritant has been replaced with rabbi as ego-massager. The rabbi's the with-it guy with whom you watch the ball game. Yep, that's one swell guy, our rabbi.
Riva Greenberg | Posted 11.17.2011
Dear Santa, all I'd like this Christmas is for you to take this diabetes away.
Bradley Burston | Posted 05.25.2011
A year ago at this time, I wrote a piece which I ultimately decided was too venom-laced, too cruel, and too socially un-redeeming even for this often ...
Paul Golin | Posted 05.25.2011
The high rate of intermarriage can be seen as the defining opportunity to transform the Jewish community from an insular, tribal entity to a diverse and expanding peoplehood based on key common causes and beliefs.
Yisrael Campbell | Posted 05.25.2011
Passover is over and now the chametz is gone. The house is safe and our future is assured.
AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 05.25.2011
JERUSALEM — Prominent ultra-Orthodox Israeli rabbis are targeting a new foe in the decidedly impious world of the Internet: They've demanded a b...
AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 05.25.2011
NEWARK, N.J. — The most eagerly awaited video release in New Jersey won't be showing in theaters, but will screen exclusively at a Newark federa...
Posted 05.25.2011
Ben Lynfield, The Independent Ultra-orthodox rabbis in Israel are trying to crack down on growing use of the internet among their followers, saying t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
The debate over comprehensive health care reform has been so heated this summer it was bound to get biblical. On Tuesday, the National Democratic Jew...
Ira Forman | Posted 05.25.2011
The National Jewish Democratic Council is bringing together rabbis from across the country to stand up for comprehensive health insurance reform and we need your help and your voice.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
AP A planeload of Israeli rabbis and Jewish mystics held an airborne prayer meeting in the belief that it could help check the spread of swine flu in...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
A former Israeli security official, Nissim Aharon, stands accused by police of posing as a rabbi in order to sexually assault and defraud women, Haare...
Eric Dezenhall | Posted 05.25.2011
Philip Roth called it right when he said, "We now live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist lies helpless before what he knows he will read in tomorrow morning's newspaper."
ABC News | EMILY FRIEDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
Growing up in a black, Pentecostal family in Cleveland, Alysa Stanton never imagined the day when she would be preparing to be ordained as a Jewish ra...
Rabbi Rachel Gartner | Posted 04.12.2012