Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the sudden death last month of Justice Antonin Scalia, is a renowned jurist on the U.S. Court of Appeals for Washington, D.C., Circuit, a Harvard Law graduate and a Jew.
Like many seeds for a book, the thought of writing about rabbinic discussions of sex came from an offhand comment made by a stranger.
Sleep-away camp is a rite of passage.
What would you do if you were a volunteer at a social service center and one of the clients, unable to walk and without his or her own car, asked for a ride home?
At the request of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an Israeli government commission convened to consider how to be inclusive of more forms of Judaism at Jerusalem’s Western Wall — the Kotel — which has long been the domain of the Orthodox.
The divisive debate over the Iran nuclear deal, which consumed so much of our energy last year, feels like a distant memory.
Republican front-runner Donald Trump warned on Wednesday of riots if he is denied the party\’s presidential nomination and pulled the plug on a scheduled debate among candidates, raising the temperature even more in a heated White House race.
Camp Ramah in Ojai, part of the Conservative movement’s group of Ramah camps across North America, will begin offering a program for rising 11th-graders this summer for the first time in its 60-year history.
The year was 2002, the height of the Second Intifada, which saw hundreds of Israelis die in terror attacks.
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