This story was originally published on Moment.com. Sign up for the Moment Minute.  INDEPENDENT I humbly refer the question to rabbis far older and more learned than I, beginning with the third-century Rabbi Yochanan. His response (in the Babylonian...

A Bintel Brief, Yiddish for a bundle of letters, has been solving reader dilemmas since 1906. Send yours via email, social media or this form. Dear Bintel, My husband is nearing the end of his life due to cancer. He wants assisted suicide, legal...

In 2021, the Orthodox Union declined to certify Impossible Pork as kosher, despite approving other vegan “Impossible” products like its burger and chicken nuggets. Rabbi Menachem Genack, the CEO of the Orthodox Union’s kosher division, explained...

A Jewish nonprofit that distributes mezuzahs has been inundated with thousands of requests from non-Jews ordering mezuzahs in solidarity. The surge follows a campaign led by Catholic actress Patricia Heaton, urging people to place mezuzahs on their doors...

Around 1 a.m. Wednesday night, Brooklyn-based activist Adina Sash received a phone call she had long awaited: Malky Berkowitz, 29, a fellow Orthodox woman, had finally received a “get,” or Jewish divorce contract. For Sash, better known on Instagram...

For decades the Chabad-Lubavitch movement has followed the teachings of its last spiritual leader, popularly known as “the Rebbe,” to bring Jewish practice and learning to every Jew across the globe through a sprawling network of emissaries and Jewish...

“A person is given three names: one that their parents call them, one their fellows call them, and one that they acquire with their deeds.” (Midrash Tanhuma, Va-yakhel) The naming process is unique to each individual and culture, yet names...

(JTA) — When she was 14 years old, Elke Bentley could hear her father’s online Talmud classes through the wall between her bedroom and his home office in Brookline, Massachusetts. The 5 a.m. start time for the daily Talmud learning her father had...

When the group that would become the Hadar Institute launched in 2006 with a study hall in a rented space on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, it aimed to combine two things that, outside of a few rabbinical schools, were rarely found in the same place:...

During his Depression-era run as one of the country’s most popular radio personalities, Father Charles Coughlin spread antisemitic conspiracy theories, praised fascists and suggested Jews deserved the horrors of Nazi persecution. Now, nine decades...

Hebrew Union College, the Reform movement’s rabbinical seminary, will begin admitting and ordaining students who are in relationships with non-Jews, following a decision by its board to drop a longstanding ban on interfaith relationships for rabbinical...

(JTA) — The creators of new Passover haggadahs focused on Zionism and American patriotism were working on their projects long before Oct. 7, when Hamas attacked Israel and triggered a war in Gaza and a broad reckoning over both Israel and the place...