Dr. Azzan Yadin-Israel, from the Department of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University, delivered a lecture on ‘The Rise of Rabbinic Midrash and Its Christian and Pagan Context’. He began his lecture by ...

The presidents of the three major American rabbinical groups today expressed common concern about the need to strengthen Jewish education, speaking in a symposium held here at the annual conference of ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. In a momentous ...

Several years after the U.S. government moved its embassy to Jerusalem in 2018, the then Israeli ambassador to America, Ron Dermer, contacted his personal friend, Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt of ...

(RNS) — Steely Dan put it this way back in 1973: “I’m never going back to my old school.” Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is “my old school.” It is the oldest rabbinical seminary in ...

DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — Rachel Posner grew up a Conservative movement Jew, but when she decided to go back to school to become a rabbi she chose the independent Academy for Jewish Religion in Yonkers, ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. (JTA) – In ...

Editor’s Note: This open letter, written by Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt, Chairman of the Zionist Rabbinic Coalition, was recently sent to all major ordaining rabbinic seminaries in the US We American ...

Eisen earned a B.A. in religious thought from the University of Pennsylvania, a BPhil in the sociology of religion at Oxford University, and his PhD in the history of Jewish thought from Hebrew ...

The Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies had a list price of $31,342 this year. Starting next year, tuition will be $7,000. (JTA) — Mark Asher Goodman is beginning to imagine finishing paying off ...

Did you catch the press release from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) denouncing the slander against the International Israelite Board of Rabbis (IIBR), a Black rabbinical organization, by leaders of ...