(JTA) — Last week we did it: My wife and I dropped our eldest son off for his first year of college. As you can imagine, it is a heady, emotional moment. There is pride and joy mixed with anxiety and the bittersweet sense that this primary chapter of...
(JTA) — A Jewish couple has grounds to sue a state-funded foster care and adoption agency that denied them services because they are Jewish, a Tennessee appeals court ruled Thursday.
The decision is the latest development in a long-running battle...
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(JTA) — Next Thursday is Tisha B’Av, the day on which Jews traditionally commemorate the destruction of the two ancient Temples with fasting and other modes of self-denial. The goal of these...
(JTA) – Jeff Nitz, a social worker and lay leader at his church, sees himself as a trained listener.
But beginning in 2020, his congregation — Mosaic Church in the evangelical Christian hub of Lynchburg, Virginia — started becoming riven by fierce...
(JTA) — On March 23, Michael Neuman was in the middle of an obstacle course for NBC’s sports reality competition show “American Ninja Warrior.” The show features grueling challenges such as rope swings, pole vaults and climbing walls, all with...
PARIS (JTA) — After graduating from an American rabbinical program this month, a French woman has likely become France’s first Orthodox female rabbi.
Myriam Ackermann-Sommer, 26, has since last year been running Ayeka, one of Paris’ only Modern...
(JTA) — Orthodox students at Brandeis University are decrying an ad for their school that said the university is “anything but Orthodox.”
The ad, which was published on Sunday in The New York Times Magazine, was headlined, “Brandeis was founded...
(New York Jewish Week) — It’s safe to assume that there were many, many Jews among the crowd at the Dead & Company’s New York City show on Wednesday evening, where thousands of fans gathered at Citi Field to hear their favorite Grateful Dead...
(JTA) —The Reform movement is folding its high school program in Israel into a larger, nondenominational program, in an effort to cut costs and streamline operations amid declining enrollment.
Starting this fall, the Union for Reform Judaism’s...
(JTA) — More than 50 years after she became the first woman to be ordained by an American rabbinical seminary, Rabbi Sally Priesand has set another precedent: Beginning later this year, she will be the first woman rabbi to be featured at the Smithsonian...
(JTA) — British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran came close to setting the attendance record at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on Sunday, drawing a crowd of 89,106 concertgoers.
The current record-holder? A celebration of Talmud study in 2012 that filled...
Following my transfer to a new elementary school in the fourth grade, I was offered the opportunity to play a musical instrument. Music had always been a huge part of my life, whether in synagogue, which I attended each Shabbat morning with my grandfather,...
