In defense of Jewish pluralism

Earlier the finance minister had canceled funding cuts to yeshiva schools associated with Shas and United Torah Judaism. The Finance Ministry has reversed its earlier decision to cut state funding for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva high schools that do not ...

United Torah Judaism Ya'akov Litzman was questioned with a warning by police on Thursday in suspicion of fraud, Army Radio reported. The former health minister is suspected of giving a vehicle to a handicapped person against the decision of the ...

Abraham, Mitzvot, Moses, patriarchs, Shavuot How do we deal with a God that is so transcendent that human beings have no ability to access Him? This is a question humans have been asking since the dawn of time. We have an innate desire to connect ...

This morning, Jews around the world read the Book of Ruth in Shavuot prayers. The story of the most famous convert to Judaism has its inevitable ups and downs, tragedy and triumph, but the actual conversion, the acceptance of Ruth, the Moabite ...

Every so often we come across a secular Jewish anti Zionist who argues that Zionism is not Judaism and vice versa. Interestingly enough, I have just come across an invaluable text that illuminates this question from a rabbinical perspective.

The novelist dishes on Jewish identity, offending Yiddish purists and why Judaism and comics go together. Michael Chabon at a book signing Photo: Wikimedia Commons Think of an acclaimed literary writer whose inventive, original works are also funny ...

Haredi leaders have adopted the Palestinians worst traits: tolerating violence and rejecting compromise. Last Tuesday, Palestinian rioters threw rocks and chairs at a group of Jews who offended them by visiting Judaism's holiest site, the Temple ...

Considered the most important cemetery in Judaism, its dry earth is sent all over of world. Yet despite its importance, even though the state comptroller issued a harsh report about it, The Mount of Olives is still open unprotected, at the mercy of ...

In letter to PM, MK Yitzhak Cohen calls for 'bridge of understanding' between Islam and Judaism, Israeli aid to Palestinian refugees. The reprise of Aryeh Deri as the has brought with it a signal that the ultra-Orthodox party has softened its stance ...