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(New York Jewish Week) — City University of New York Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez was a no-show at a City Council hearing talking about antisemitism at the university system. Dozens of [...]

(JTA) – When “Saturday Night Seder,” a Passover-themed virtual comedy show, was a hit at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, its funders realized there was a strong appetite for new kinds of [...]

People have been looking to the stars and the changing seasons for clues and guidance about their lives since the beginning of time. In fact, the Hebrew calendar and the Jewish way of tracking [...]

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Pam Scheininger and J. David Bleich have this much in common: They are Orthodox Jews who are preoccupied with Jewish ethics and teach at New York City law schools. But when [...]

On today’s daf, we continue exploring the mishnah from Yevamot 114 concerning whether we believe a woman who testifies to her own husband’s death. The final clause of that mishnah evaluates her [...]

On today’s daf, the rabbis continue a conversation that began with a mishnah on Yevamot 114b that tried to assess the internal motivations of a woman who testified that a man (her own husband or [...]

(JTA) – Ben & Jerry’s has come out against its own parent company’s decision to sell the ice cream maker’s brand in Israel to an Israeli company that pledges to continue selling the products [...]

On May 19th, India’s Supreme Court made a historic step towards advancing the rights of sex workers and ensuring their protection under the law: It issued a set of directives that acknowledges [...]

RA’ANANA, Israel (JTA) — Perhaps the most immediate beneficiaries of Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett’s decision to dissolve his government are his longtime neighbors in the Tel Aviv suburb [...]

YILAN, Taiwan (JTA) — It was a cool spring day in Yilan, a town on Taiwan’s northeast coast known for its picturesque rice fields and delicious spring onions. On a concrete clearing beneath a [...]