Providence Mayor Brett Smiley and former U.S. Rep. David Cicilline are among 13 adults celebrating late-in-life bar and bat mitzvahs.

One of the greatest dangers to religious life is organized religion—when religion turns into religious conformity and, in the case of Judaism, Halakhah (Jewish law) becomes commonplace. At that moment ...

Shabbos, 25 Adar, marks the 125th birthday of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson OBM, wife of the Rebbe. We present a brief ...

About 103 kids and nearly 50 staff members were in class at Temple Israel when the attack happened midday Thursday in West ...

JTA — A YouTuber, a theater consultant and an accordionist walk into a kosher Chinese restaurant. It’s not the setup to a Borscht Belt joke — it’s half of the party that grabbed a table recently at ...

Michael Alexander Shapira, who is of Romanian Jewish and African American heritage, faced pressure from teammates over his ...

WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Temple Israel, the nation's largest reform synagogue, rallied together on Friday after a gunman rammed his truck into the temple's building, with some saying they ...

The story presented in the Torah is one of a holistic, pure, and ideal experience. No glitches, no politics, no accusations, no problems; a perfectly smooth ride. The Mdrash tells us the problems. So ...

Shabbat shalom! Stay safe over this windy weekend. In September, we began a new column with Rabbi Ch ...