The Pandemic’s First High Holy Days Season Has Synagogues Wondering: Will People Pay Dues?
Across the country, synagogues are bracing for a significant reduction in revenues.
Across the country, synagogues are bracing for a significant reduction in revenues.
The community, with a formal membership of only 49 and an average age of over 70, has had to negotiate the coronavirus crisis as its membership continues to shrink.
The changes in the Diaspora community.
The retirement of Rabbi Moshe Rothblum after 35 years on the bimah at Adat Ari El.
The American Jewish community is one of the most learned and sophisticated communities in Jewish history – in everything except Jewish texts. As Jews, we are illiterate.
Israel\’s Sephardi Chief Rabbi Amar to visit Los Angeles; Ask A (Different) Rabbi; Inquiring Minds Want to Know.
Beth Shalom has become the spiritual home of a growing group of Hispanics who have recently converted, or are in the process of doing so.
True Joy Through Water, a new outreach program created by Canfei Nesharim (\”the wings of eagles\”), an Orthodox environmental organization, it\’s designed to educate about the importance of water, its imperiled state and ways to conserve it.
Although rabbis can play a positive role in brokering a reconciliation in couples with relatively minor problems, they are generally ill-equipped, both educationally and often temperamentally, to grapple with spousal abuse, depression, bullying and other serious issues that can destroy marriages and souls.