Amy-Jill Levine, who teaches New Testament and Jewish studies at Vanderbilt, is the author of The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus and coeditor of The Jewish Annotated ...

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 ...

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 ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. As questions about healthcare and religious freedom spur protests around the country, Rabbi Rachael ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...