Rabbi

New York Rabbi And Wife Killed In Mumbai Shootings

AP | ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rabbi, Mumbai Shootings, Terrorism, New York City, Brooklyn, Foreign Affairs, Mumbai Attacks, Politics News

NEW YORK — A New York couple who recognized the threat of terrorism in India but believed their mission of spreading Jewish pride was greater th...

Read Whole Story

Rabbi Dennis Shulman: Battling an "Enemy of the Environment"

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Scott Garrett, Genius of Genesis, Dennis Shulman, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Congress, Psychotherapist, Sarah Palin, Jewish, 5th Congressional District, Blind, Religion, Chavurah Beth Shalom, New Jersey, David Patterson, Mining, Martin Luther King Jr., Global Warming, Rabbi, Green News
Simran Sethi

A portion of this interview first appeared in Heeb. Governor Sarah Palin has demonstrated that anyone can run for office. This is both good and bad...

Read Post

The Sound of Silence

Earl Pomerantz | Posted 10.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Culture, Religion, Living, Jews, Yom Kippur, Synagogue, Chinese Food, Shofar, Rabbi, Living News
Earl Pomerantz

The mood in the sanctuary began to sour. By the tenth "Pffffffffff," our congregation, so recently a bastion of uplift and redemption, deteriorated into a hostile, hungry mob.

Read Post

Why Orthodox Youth Are Leaving the Fold

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 10.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Rabbi, Heritage, Chabad Shliach, Rosh Hashanah, Jewish People, Community, Hassidic Communities, Orthodox Community, Parenting, Hassidic Youth, Jewish Future, Being Better Parents, Observant Parents, Rabbis, Judaism, Yeshiva, Shluchim, Living News
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

For the branch of Judaism that has long advocated - and rightly so - that education is the key to observance, it is simply unacceptable to see so many youth lost.

Read Post

Rabbis, Activists Fight to Make Iowa Workers' Conditions "Kosher"

Rabbi Jennie Rosenn | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Judaism, Kosher Redifinition, Agriprocessors Conditions, Jewish Activists, Jewish Culture, Kosher Meat, Rabbi, Politics News
Rabbi Jennie Rosenn

A series of revelations about egregious conditions at the largest kosher meatpacking plant in the United State has inspired Jewish social justice activists to call for a redefinition what it means to be kosher.

Read Post

A Gay Conservative Rabbi is Coming to a Synagogue Near You -- or Not

Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 03.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Homosexuality and Religion, Conservative Judaism, Judaism LGBT Rights, Jewish Law, Feminism, Sexuality, Gay Rabbi, Same-Sex Marriage, Lgbt, Homosexuality, Religion, Cantor, Gay Rights, Jewish, LGBT Rights, Religion and Politics, Faith, Rabbi, Living News
Leora Tanenbaum

Why are we instructed to embrace the ger, the stranger, yet we are told to distance ourselves from someone who loves Judaism and lives a Jewish life but happens to be gay?

Read Post