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According to rabbinical lore, Adam and Eve, our primal parents, were created on Rosh Hashanah, which traditionally falls on the New Moon of the seventh month.
Lauren Cahn | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
I tried to believe in nothing. And I failed.
Huffington Post | Posted 09.03.2009 | World
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...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 07.20.2009 | Comedy
You don't have to call Jewish people "Jewish people." It turns out they don't mind being called plain old "Jews." LOL.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
In the tradition of a cliche genre of jokes, the forthcoming Turkish game show, Penitents Compete, will pit a Greek Orthodox priest, an imam, a rabbi ...
Alan Lurie | Posted 08.05.2009 | Living
This is a commencement address that I recently delivered to a graduating class of Rabbis. I hope that its call to service resonates for you.
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.05.2009 | Comedy
No more aging D.J.'s to get all the grandparents from Miami and New York and The Los Angeles Valley to dance to the Village People's "YMCA," because the Village People will finally be allowed to get married, and in high style at that.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 06.26.2009 | Living
We need a national Sabbath.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.27.2009 | Style
Many of us find the Synagogue services oppressive and stultifying. They're too formal, too long, too boring. Nobody said that there shouldn't be a stimulating and satisfying social portion of a Synagogue.
Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 05.03.2009 | Living
Do you live as if remission will go on forever? Or do you allow the thought of death to be before your eyes always, so as not to waste a precious moment of life?
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 04.25.2009 | Living
Man, if only we Rabbis, ministers, and Priests were also rewarded for failure. Given the new poll just released that shows atheism increasing in America, we'd get a bonus.
Jerusalem Post | Posted 04.17.2009 | World
Ahead of Pope Benedict XVI's May visit to Israel, the rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinovitch, has said that it is not proper to come to the sit...
The State Journal-Register | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics
Rep. Rahm Emanuel, recently named President-elect Barack Obama's new White House chief of staff, has a reputation as a hard-nosed political operator w...
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics
Sholom Mordechai was essentially a glorified shochet and butcher, the country's largest producer of kosher meat. His beard and black hat were enough to unnerve many Jews.
AP | ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics
NEW YORK — A New York couple who recognized the threat of terrorism in India but believed their mission of spreading Jewish pride was greater th...
Simran Sethi | Posted 11.20.2008 | Green
A portion of this interview first appeared in Heeb. Governor Sarah Palin has demonstrated that anyone can run for office. This is both good and bad...
Earl Pomerantz | Posted 11.09.2008 | Living
The mood in the sanctuary began to sour. By the tenth "Pffffffffff," our congregation, so recently a bastion of uplift and redemption, deteriorated into a hostile, hungry mob.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 11.01.2008 | Living
For the branch of Judaism that has long advocated - and rightly so - that education is the key to observance, it is simply unacceptable to see so many youth lost.
Rabbi Jennie Rosenn | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics
A series of revelations about egregious conditions at the largest kosher meatpacking plant in the United State has inspired Jewish social justice activists to call for a redefinition what it means to be kosher.
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Gahl Eden Sasson | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living