My colleagues and friends in the Orthodox rabbinate and beyond have been debating the limits of Orthodox Judaism, based on the recent RCA resolution to ban female rabbis, and based on Agudath Israel’s ...

Readers of Israel’s Haaretz.com, many of them liberal and secular, must have been surprised to read, in late October, a public manifesto, signed by 42 members of the Rabbinical Council of America ...

I never did like the name “Open Orthodoxy”. It doesn’t take a Talmudic genius to see its not-so-subtle insinuation, that the rest of the Orthodox world is somehow…“closed.” Closed, though, to what? To ...

As the sun began to rise high above the wine-dark Aegean Sea, the twelve bells of Great Lavra monastery on Mount Athos pealed out a welcome. In the rock-strewn bay at the foot of the 500-ft.

COMMENTARY: Despite the lamentable developments in Ukraine and beyond in 2022, it’s possible 2023 could herald long-desired ecumenical breakthroughs. Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew ...

Zionism thrived on diversity, but rising orthodoxy risks shrinking the movement and alienating Jews with differing views on religion and policy. Zionism has always been a diverse movement in members ...

A man was found dead in a vehicle by police near the Lodge Freeway Service Drive in Detroit. LOS ANGELES – Often when a potential convert walks through the doors of his church, one of the first things ...

In Jerusalem last week, more than 1,600 rabbis and laymen gathered at the marble-colonnaded Hechal Shlomo (Solomon’s Palace) for the first world conference of Orthodox Jewry. Although Orthodoxy is ...

This is the year's midnight. There's a hush to the dark, short days between Christmas and the New Year. Some still see it as a sacred time, a period of meditation. Others - now the great majority - ...

Orthodox means right belief (or right opinion). And it's certainly a useful way of categorizing doctrine or the teachings of various groups. But when I've applied the label to myself, I think I've ...