“Wow” — shevach in Hebrew, or praiseworthiness — is about God’s awesomeness. Rabbi Spodek said he spends a minute or two pondering the miracle that is creation. That there is a (narrowing) climate in ...

If Passover chronicles the epic jailbreak that freed the Jews from slavery, Shavuot is the sober reminder of what we must do with that freedom.

Rabbi Chaim Bruk is Spiritual Leader and co-CEO of Chabad Lubavitch of Montana. He can be reached at: [email protected].

TAMPA, Fla. — Jewish communities are on high alert Monday as the first day of Passover begins. FBI Director Christopher Wray says the bureau is monitoring potential threats that could target ...

Under Jewish law, leavened food must be removed or sold to a non-Jew before Passover. Any leavened food owned by Jews during Passover becomes forbidden even after the holiday ends. To avoid ...

Rabbi Chaim Brook’s path was never in doubt. The rabbi and his wife Raizel grew up separately, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where they “had the merit to be present near the Rebbe,” he said.

Reformed, a French comedy that just arrived on Max, is ostensibly about a female rabbi, struggling for acceptance; it follows Léa, a character based on Delphine Horvilleur, France’s most famous ...

Amid the ongoing bloody war in Ukraine and the unique halachic challenges faced by Jewish soldiers on the front lines, Rabbi Yonatan Markovitch, Chief Rabbi of Kyiv and Chief Rabbi of the ...

The latest charming TV rabbi, a female religious leader in the French series Reformed, stands out for leavening existential ...

This song is the Song of Songs – Shir Hashirim. On Passover, we read about the love between God and the Jewish people in a metaphor of a loving couple. The song is one of love and longing ...

Rick Jacobs is a rabbi and the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest denomination of Judaism in North America. Among the terrible lessons of Oct. 7, 2023, was that it became ...

Mayoral candidate Brad Lander said he’s so Jewish “that I almost became a rabbi” while discussing his faith and the fight against antisemitism Wednesday night. Lander, the city comptroller ...