New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in the last minute scrapped a plan to join the many world leaders flying to Israel to attend the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on Friday.
Arnold (Avraham) and Ora Band are leaving Los Angeles in early October after more than half a century of teaching and community leadership.
In the wake of last summer’s horrific massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, I wrote to the Shalhevet community about our responsibility to take active steps to create safer spaces for the LGBT community.
I am a gay Orthodox Jewish teen. That in and of itself may be one of the most controversial sentences in modern Jewish history, but it’s also simply my life.
A few years ago, Yael Merlini wasn’t sure she and her family could stay in Germany. Her children, ages 7, 11 and 15, were the only Jews in their school in Giessen, a town near Frankfurt.
One of the great mysteries of history is how a country as civilized as Germany was persuaded to embrace a man as coarse and cruel as Adolf Hitler. The answer, according to Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, is marketing.
It’s hard to deny that this year’s High Holy Days take place in the midst of a presidential election campaign that is more heated and divisive than any in recent history.
The Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) has adopted a resolution requiring a hala-chic prenuptial agreement in any wedding officiated by a member of the organiza-tion, thereby preventing husbands from deny-ing a get, or Jewish divorce document, to their spouse in the future, or a wife from refusing to accept one.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Thursday reaffirmed her commitment to stand up for Israel’s security and protect her from unfair efforts to delegitimize it.
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