I remember learning in my yeshiva high school that the time of Jewish prophecy is dead. God’s intimate connection with his people had been severed because of their iniquity and never again can we ...

During The Three Weeks between 17 Tammuz and Tisha B’Av, as we recall the destruction of the Temples, we read three of the most searing passages in the prophetic literature, the first two from the ...

The tomb of the Jewish prophets Chagai, Zecharia, and Malachi on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem recently had its handrails upgraded with Christian crosses, under the approval of the monk ...

A London-based rabbi, Shire is vice-principal of the Leo Baeck College and Center for Jewish Education. In this beautifully illustrated book, he selects 30 individuals who meet his criteria for being ...

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It’s perhaps the most rabbinic word in the dictionary. If a person has aspirations to become a rabbi, aside from knowing halacha and how to develop a practical lesson from the parsha, he’s gotta be ...

Before Hannukah, many have dubbed the lull in holidays as "Jewish Book Month." With so many excellent Jewish novels to ...

John Wakeman is pastor of Greenfield Faith Church. The pivotal figure of Jesus is the dominant thread connecting Judaism and Christianity. Even the secular world acknowledges Jesus by marking the ...

Fascinating story by the incomparable Samuel G. Freedman about the short-lived and long-defunct New Jewish Times. The editor was a young Yossi Klein Halevi and first cover was drawn by The Art ...

Political conservatives have long complained that liberal Judaism is more concerned with political issues than with following Jewish “religious” precepts. A typical example from the Jewish Voice, a ...

(JTA) Asked by one of New York’s wealthiest men, in a forum convened by one of the world’s largest local philanthropies, how he would improve relations between Black and Jewish Americans, Amar’e ...