5+ hour, 20+ min ago  (955+ words) Rabbi Andrea Weiss, a former provost of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion who made history as the first woman to ordain rabbis in the Reform movement, has died. Weiss died on Tuesday, surrounded by family at her home in…...

22+ hour, 30+ min ago  (1067+ words) Visitors to Jerusalem walking down King George Street might well be struck by the incongruity of the situation. Why is one of the major thoroughfares in the eternal Jewish capital named after the long-dead monarch in the faraway nation of…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (866+ words) As war rages in the Middle East, Iranian Jews in the United States are experiencing a familiar, almost generational whiplash: fear and hope, pride and anxiety intertwined. In Los Angeles, home to the largest Iranian community outside of Iran, including…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (640+ words) We live in challenging times. Especially for the Jewish people. The world is in a period of upheaval and instability, undergoing rapid changes " and not necessarily for the good. On an individual and global scale, people are grappling with problems…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (577+ words) I want to share his thoughts on Purim. "Jocularly, folks sometimes say, "Purim is like Yom Kippur; "Yom K'Purim," he begins. "Sadly, from my American perspective, the current (and longtime) political leadership in both the US and Israel leads me…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (419+ words) On October 15, 1982, in the shadow of the First Lebanon War, Rav Aharon Lichtenstein published an open letter to Prime Minister Menachem Begin in the religious-Zionist newspaper Hatzofeh. Rav Lichtenstein's argument was not an accusation against the IDF but a moral…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (746+ words) Why real leadership demands results and not just soundbites in a time of rising antisemitism. Leadership Is earned in deeds, not headlines - opinion Why real leadership demands results and not just soundbites in a time of rising antisemitism. In Jewish…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (541+ words) Rare Disease Day: "We are here for them, but they need you to be here for them as well"The Jerusalem Post Rare Disease Day: "We are here for them, but they need you to be here for them as…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (424+ words) According to the museum's executive director, Dawn LaRochelle, who conceived the project, the exhibition explores the idea that identity is not an "either/or" proposition. "This exhibition was born from a desire to shatter toxic binaries," said LaRochelle. "Too often,…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (161+ words) Scores of mosques across Australia held memorial services for Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following his assassination by Israel on Saturday. Arrahman Islamic Centre in Sydney held a mourning gathering for the "pure soul" of Khamenei "and for the souls…...