I thought the need for this conversation would have disappeared. Like, a few decades ago. I cannot believe I have to say this. Again. But, here goes. The other day, I was talking to someone about a ...

“To be stringent in the laws of conversion is to be lenient on assimilation.” This clever play on halakhic lingo is the brainchild of Rabbi Haim Amsellem, this generation’s leading rabbinic scholar on ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Following comments made by Pope Francis during a teaching before a general audience at the Vatican, Israel's top Jewish ...

Over the past week, plenty of people got the chance to chime in on the matter when Hey Alma, a Jewish feminist website, published an essay by Abby Jo Morris titled “I’m a Jewish Convert. I’m Also an ...

The arrival here of one of the few extant copies of the Samaritan Bible in the original, a hand-written manuscript of the Hebrew Pentateuch dating from the 15th century, has been announced by Rabbi ...