In Jewish history, few episodes are as dramatic and consequential as the rise and fall of the false messiah Shabbatai Tzvi ...

Mandani proved the point: Satmar and Neturei Karta are not opposites. They are mirror images. One hides behind Talmud; the other hides behind Twitter. But both are preaching the same heresy — that ...

As thousands of Jewish worshipers visit over the holiday, Haredim and religious Zionists spar over religious prohibition on ...

"In this decisive moment," writes Rabbi Yehiel E. Poupko, "what do the churches have to say to the Jewish people about their ...

At a Religion News Service symposium, faith leaders and journalists heard panels on what faith means in a digital age – and ...

Modern Orthodox peace activist Anton Goodman, of Rabbis for Human Rights, talks about his life, the causes he champions, and the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Could a political assassination still occur in Israel today? Has the danger passed? Thirty years have gone by, full of fierce ...

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl addressed growing turmoil within New York's Jewish community over the upcoming mayoral election. Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, one of New York City’s most prominent rabbis, addressed ...

Rabbi Elchonon Cohen of the Community Shul affectionately remembered the final time he walked his ailing, aging father-in-law to his brother-in-law’s ...

Buchdahl had faced public and private criticism for declining to sign a rabbinic letter condemning the mayoral candidate.

Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove doubles down on warning about Zohran Mamdani's mayoral candidacy as Mamdani's campaign cites Jewish ...

When Chelsea's Orange Street Synagogue shuttered in 1999, the fate of its elegant Torah ark hung in the balance. So a rabbi ...