4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (940+ words) A group of Temple Mount activists has condemned the government’s refusal to open Judaism’s holiest site to Jewish worshippers on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and allow the sounding of the shofar there. Following more…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (438+ words) Amid an international diplomatic row over the prosecution of three Jews in Belgium for performing brith milah, the E.U. commissioner for health and animal welfare said on Thursday that in addition to keeping Jews safe, European nations should allow them to…...

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1+ week, 5+ day ago   (505+ words) For much of the 20th century, Conservative Judaism occupied perhaps the most natural position in American Jewish life. It offered tradition without requiring Orthodoxy, modernity without abandoning ritual, strong synagogues, serious rabbis, Hebrew education, summer camps, youth groups and a deep…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (274+ words) Two European-Jewish groups on Tuesday announced the opening of a certification program for performers of Jewish circumcision to address crackdowns on the custom, prompting a top E.U. official to laud the move as a “credible model” for cooperation. EJA said the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (508+ words) In the face of rising anti-Zionism and a troubling wave of antisemitism, two Catholic theologians have issued a public appeal that should matter deeply to Jews. Father Antoine Lévy, a Dominican theologian, and Dr. André Villeneuve, a biblical scholar and…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (758+ words) Last Sunday morning, Jewish worshippers ascended the Temple Mount carrying Jewish prayer books. That this is news should itself be astonishing. So the prohibition has not disappeared. But another part of it has cracked. Consider what Israel is actually “experimenting…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (447+ words) For Jewish young adults, the research finds that life feels fast, the demands are layered and the emotional load is constant. This context is a thread in many of the key insights from the research: o Seventy-five percent of Jewish…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (428+ words) Full disclosure: Chai Lifeline is a client. I have spent years telling their story professionally, placing coverage of the camps, the crisis teams, the volunteers who show up when a family hears the worst sentence a doctor can say. I…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (269+ words) Tens of thousands of worshippers filled the Western Wall Plaza in Jerusalem on Saturday night for the first Selichot service of the year, marking the start of the Hebrew month of Elul. Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, rabbi of the Western Wall…...