This book is a deeply scholarly and ambitious work that sheds new light on the Talmud Yerushalmi and its place within the intellectual world of late antiquity. The book Rabbinic Scholarship in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two thousand years ago, Jews were divided between competing sects all based on the Jewish scriptures, but with different ...

In this first episode of Rabbinic Identities/Rabbinic Crisis, Yehuda Kurtzer explores our guests’ paths to the rabbinate and the challenges and blessings of working in and leading a community as both ...

Members of Jewish Emergent Network’s inaugural rabbinic fellowship group, including Rabbi Nate DeGroot (top row, far right) come together. DeGroot has served as a rabbi at IKAR for the past two years ...

(JTA) – In early December, Judaism’s Conservative movement sent a disquieting message to dozens of synagogues looking for a new rabbi: Many of you won’t make a hire this year. At least 80 Conservative ...

I do not think I have ever read a book that was so inspiring as it was disheartening as Studies in Halakha and Rabbinic History (Maggid Books) by Rabbi Eitam Henkin. This is an inspiring book because ...

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects individual liberties by prohibiting government sponsored promotion of religion (the "Establishment Clause"), on the one hand, and protecting the ...

When someone makes a mistake, our rabbis teach that we must hold them accountable in a way that is healing — not harmful ...

Just at the one-year mark in my current home, and still unpacking boxes – mostly sefarim, books, CDs, and games – I found Sefer Gematriot, which lists all the unique words in Tanach in their gematria ...

(JTA) In early December, Judaism’s Conservative movement sent a disquieting message to dozens of synagogues looking for a new rabbi: Many of you won’t make a hire this year. At least 80 Conservative ...

Rabbis Rafi Ellenson and Arielle Stein created Rabbinic Fit Check, an Instagram account dedicated to showcasing the diversity and style of rabbis, clergy members, and Jewish scholars. Rabbi Rafi ...

A landmark vote last week by the Conservative movement’s rabbinic committee established rituals for same-sex wedding ceremonies, filling a void following a 2006 vote to establish gay union rituals.