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Remember When: ‘Will Conflict Permanently Divide the Jews?’
07 Jan 2026 20:31 GMT
… Permanently Divide the Jews?” (Photo credit: Washington Jewish Week)
Walter … Jewish religious law.
Butler’s op-ed navigates the question of whether Conservative Judaism … but simultaneously prohibits Conservative rabbis from officiating at interfaith weddings …
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At a former driving school, Kehillat Harlem plants roots for Jewish life uptown
06 Jan 2026 21:27 GMT
… founded in 2024 by Rabbi Dimitry Ekshtut and Erica … Morningside Heights.
Many observant Jews in the neighborhood were looking … that she seeks to follow Jewish law.
While Kehillat Harlem has … the more stricter obligations for Judaism,” said Flax. “We try …
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Rabbis after Google: Jewish leadership must be reimagined - opinion
06 Jan 2026 09:09 GMT
… Jewish people’s response to this question. As a Jew … this marvelous intergenerational storytelling.Judaism has evolved into something … Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef: The silence of our two chief rabbis … in the adherence to Jewish law and practice as they …
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Ultra-Orthodox fury over military enlistment turns deadly in Israel
07 Jan 2026 19:29 GMT
… exemption of ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service.
According … religious study to preserve Jewish law and tradition, rather than … coalition partners, United Torah Judaism (UTJ) and Shas, … including secularism, which their rabbis are afraid would tempt …
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Orthodox Jewish judge Alvin Hellerstein to preside over Maduro case in Manhattan
04 Jan 2026 08:29 GMT
… K. Hellerstein, an Orthodox Jew and one of the … attention in Israel and Jewish communities worldwide, given Maduro … government.
Hellerstein’s Orthodox Jewish background is rarely emphasized … is known for observing Jewish law while maintaining a reputation …
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Are Jews a Nation, a Family, or a Religious Community?
04 Jan 2026 07:53 GMT
… Judaism, it would effectively declare that Jewish identity depends upon observance of Jewish law … identity as a Jew is determined … Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, in explaining matrilineal descent (The Jewish … genetically, and emotionally. Jews are a religion, …
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Judaism’s worst sin, degrading G^d’s Name, has never been annulled
03 Jan 2026 22:17 GMT
… news audiences but by those Jews.
Jews learn that we should regard … make Judaism look bad, you hamper that too. Jewish Law says that all Jews … a little. One of his rabbis calls him Mr. Innovation [Ish … 's an Orthodox Jew but not a rabbi. *
His writing has …
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Armenia’s Jews in Israel: A legacy of migration and dual identity
03 Jan 2026 18:14 GMT
… Christian man; under Halakha, or Jewish religious law, which holds that Jewish identity is passed … intermarriage. Rabbi Burshtein estimates that between 100 and 200 Jews currently reside …
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Orthodox Judaism is making space for women's religious leadership – even without traditional ordination
03 Jan 2026 12:38 GMT
When people picture a rabbi, they may imagine a … in a synagogue. But “rabbi” means much more than that … rabbi could be a teacher, a nonprofit executive for a Jewish … organization or a scholar of Jewish law — and, increasingly …
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Do Jews Need Jesus?
02 Jan 2026 16:21 GMT
… is not “Judaism plus.” It is Christianity in Jewish costume.
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Reform Judaism is an internal Jewish argument about how Jews live … a dispute about modernizing Jewish law. It is an external … that emerged from Jewish matrices. Jews can respect Christians …