Feb. 3—When Rabbi Jack Shlachter, an instructor for a new course on Jewish religion and culture in Santa Fe, opened the floor to questions at a recent class, Gil Gross piped up. "I'll see if I can get ...

Two thousand years ago, Jews were divided between competing sects all based on the Jewish scriptures, but with different interpretations. After the Romans destroyed the Jerusalem Temple in 70 C.E., ...

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Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the flagship rabbinical school of Reform Judaism, will allow students to pursue ordination remotely, the school announced Tuesday, part of a program ...

Ancient Jews held large communal meals, inviting friends, relatives and perhaps even strangers to fulfill the thank offering.

(RNS) — A newly released census of Jewish religious schools for non-Orthodox children in the United States shows that enrollment had plunged over the decade and a half preceding the pandemic, falling ...

Yom Kippur is the most important day of the year for the Jewish faith and ends the 10-day period of repentance and reflection known as the "High Holidays," which began with Rosh Hashanah. But what is ...

Months after a Supreme Court deadlock blocked an attempt by a Catholic church to create the nation’s first openly religious, ...

(WHTM) — What are the families of those killed and injured at the Tree of Life Synagogue seeking? What does the Jewish religion say about the death penalty? The answer to what Jewish people and ...

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