Until now, only Orthodox Jewish men in Israel have been allowed to take exams to become rabbis. After a long campaign, women ...

The new College for Contemporary Judaism, run by former HUC faculty and board members, asked a judge to let it run the closed ...

(JTA) — Days after Hebrew Union College graduated its final rabbinical class in Cincinnati, a new Jewish seminary has its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two thousand years ago, Jews were divided between competing sects all based on the Jewish scriptures, but with different ...

The College for Contemporary Judaism was created in response to Hebrew Union College decision to no longer educate and ordain ...

Judaism, like many ancient cultural and spiritual traditions, sees itself as the bearer of a sacred legacy—a divine inheritance rooted in covenant, memory, and mission. This self-understanding is not ...

At the core of personal trauma there is often a loss of faith in life’s order and stability. When faced with a crisis, some people turn to religion. Others turn to artistic expression. David Gelernter ...

Our Judaism is broadly defined as the collective historical experience of the Jewish people – a widely and wildly diverse experience that has helped foster our extraordinary resilience. For a long ...

Such weddings would take place outside the synagogue and be officiated by someone who is not clergy, such as a friend, relative, or judge. A Conservative synagogue in Minnesota has become the first in ...

Jewish identity is not supposed to be about holding onto lifestyle traditions; rather, it holds us accountable for the way we ...

From gender roles to religious authority, American-trained leaders transformed key debates in Israeli Judaism.