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(JTA) — Rhonda Moore was alarmed when she saw the ad for a student-loan refinancing company that featured what she believed was a stereotypical dishonest Jewish banker.  In the ad, for the [...]

When I admit I don’t pray and rarely attend synagogue services, I’m often met with wide-eyed surprise. After all, I’m a rabbi; I should be going to shul. Jews I know who don’t go to shul often [...]

(New York Jewish Week) — The speaker of New York’s City Council said she supports her colleagues’ participation in an educational trip to Israel this week, one day after a Jewish news site asked [...]

(JTA) — Benjamin Netanyahu, the incoming Israeli prime minister who has said that Donald Trump was Israel’s best-ever friend in the White House, said the former president’s dinner a week ago with [...]

When the cunning wind of Kislev sneaks under your door,  wrap yourself in trust. Watch the early waning moon descend. Retreat into the blackness.   There is nothing else you can do. Nothing else [...]

The countdown to Hanukkah has officially begun, and if you are anything like me, you’ve probably been doing Hanukkah shopping in dribs and drabs over the past few weeks. I truly enjoy giving [...]

BERLIN (JTA) – The city of Erfurt in central Germany is home to an impeccably restored medieval synagogue made possible because local Jews had been expelled long before the Nazis began their [...]

When media reports measure the effects of a terrorist attack by the number of people killed and wounded, they are giving a superficial report of the true effect of a terrorist attack.

(JTA) — A week after former President Donald Trump dined with two men who are known for their outspoken antisemitism, Republican leaders are beginning to speak out — though some are sparing Trump [...]

(New York Jewish Week) — Freddie Roman wasn’t just a Catskills comic but a curator and preservationist of a comedy tradition born at the Jewish resorts in upstate New York’s Catskill Mountains.  [...]