Judaism News

Tot Shabbat At B'nai Avraham Congregation B'nai Avraham is happy to invite Jewish children in the western communities to its first Tot Shabbat of the school season on Friday, Sept.

When I completed a draft of this column I forwarded it to several people for their comments, including a local rabbi friend of mine.

YAHOO! Story published at magicvalley.com on Saturday, September 06, 2008 Last modified on Saturday, September 6, 2008 10:45 AM MDT In this April 14, 1947 file photo illegal Jewish immigrants crowd the deck of ...

Keep an eye on Rabbi Lorraine Rudenberg in action at Temple Israel of Highlands County - conducting Friday evening services, leading group discussions, helping out in the kitchen, or talking with others about ...

But at 13, she learned just how multicultural her family was. She discovered that her mother's mother, who "wore saris and cooked the same food as everyone else in the family," had been born Rachel Jacobs, a ...

The rabbis, scientists and engineers of the Zomet Institute are trying to solve the problems that arise when technology and the Torah collide.

One would expect to hear Hebrew mixed with English during local Jewish services.

More than 2,000 years after they were written, the Dead Sea Scrolls are going digital as part of an effort to better preserve the ancient texts and let more people see them than ever before.

A technology soon to be introduced in local hospitals that automatically turns off life-support systems at the request of terminally ill patients has been denounced by a prominent group of rabbis as a ...

A gutsy op-ed in The New York Times has sharpened the debate over the Agriprocessors kosher-meat-factory scandal -- and perhaps pointed the way toward rapprochement between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews.

The Union for Reform Judaism, the largest synagogue movement in North America, has named its first female vice president.

Rabbi Don Levy will teach five free courses on Judaism during five evenings beginning at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Temple Beit Torah, 522 E. Madison St.

A month ago, I wrote a column containing 20 questions about Jews and Judaism. I was heartened by hearing from several minyanim of the readers in reaction to that piece.

Rabbi Wendy Pein made local history earlier this month on her first day of work at Adat Chaverim, the Reform Jewish synagogue in Plano.

Americans are serious about religion, yet willing to have fun with the world of faith.

Jonathan Sarna, the Brandeis University scholar known best as a historian of American Jewry, departs from his usual field in his book "A Time to Every Purpose: Letters to a Young Jew," set for release this ...

What does Baruch Spinoza -- arguably the most radical thinker of the 17th century -- have to do with society and Jewish identity today? That's the question Dr.

The Jewish Women's Circle is an international group designed for the contemporary woman.

Last year 10,000 people from across the East Coast swarmed into Litchfield for the annual New England Jewish Festival.

Los Angeles - Four recovering addicts celebrated their sobriety "birthdays" on a recent Friday, in keeping with an Alcoholics Anonymous tradition.