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Seventy-year-old Harold Eichenbaum doesn't think much of kashrut. He grew up in Texas, Reform like his parents and grandparents, and was confirmed at 16.

Elliott Broidy, a major philanthropist in the Los Angeles Jewish community, pleaded guilty to the felony charge of rewarding official misconduct.

Richard Jacobs, senior rabbi of Westchester Reform Temple, is being honored for his public service in the community by the New York Board of Rabbis.

Jessica Fox Epstein, cantor and musical scholar, recently visited East Stroudsburg University to present a program, "Sing to the Lord: Music in the Time of the Bible." Contributed photo November 25, 2009 Cantor, musicologist, and musical scholar, Jessica Fox Epstein, recently presented a program titled, "Sing to the Lord: Music in the Time of the ...

As a college freshman at Brandeis University, an essentially Jewish school, Dvora Weisberg was shocked when her new Catholic roommate asked her, "Why did you kill Jesus?" Weisberg, who spoke Monday at Temple Israel's E.N. Lubin Clergy Institute on Judaism, is now director of the School of Rabbinic Studies at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish ...

Jehuda Reinharz The Talmud teaches that if a king of Israel dies, all Jews are eligible to succeed him.

When Argentine artist Mirta Kupferminc escorts her mother, a Holocaust survivor who fled her homeland of Hungary in the wake of World War II, to view exhibits of her work, she sometimes worries that her mother will find the material too disturbing, too reminiscent of her experiences during the war.

A very special service encompassing and celebrating many faiths from all around the world will take place on Tuesday, November 24th at 7 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church.

A special service encompassing and celebrating many faiths from around the world will take place at 7 p.m. Nov.

The only synagogue in Greenville, N.C., sits on the outskirts of this old tobacco town in a converted funeral home.

When an Israeli student at Carleton College complained that the school's Jewish organization had made no official statement recognizing Israel's right to exist, Jewish student leaders at the small liberal arts school in Minnesota found themselves stuck between two poles.

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About 1,000 people gathered in support of the nation's oldest institution for training rabbis, cantors and educators of Reform Judaism.

Millsaps associate professor Dr. James E. Bowley is the 2009 recipient of the Humanities Teacher Award by the Mississippi Humanities Council.

Rabbi Dr. David Ellenson, President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, will be the guest speaker at the 2nd Annual Jacob and Deborah Rubinstein Memorial Lecture.

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion will dedicate the renovation and expansion of its Klau Library on Nov.

With a tallit draped over his shoulders and a guitar resting on his lap, Rabbi Ethan Franzel sat, eyes closed and completely still, in the dimly lit chapel at Main Line Reform Temple-Beth Elohim in Wynnewood.

Rabbi Shimon Paskow The Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County will hold a general meeting, cosponsored with Temple Adat Elohim, on Sunday, November 8, 2009 at Temple Adat Elohim 2420 E. Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks, 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. The Topic: "Searching For Jewish Treasures" Shimon Paskow, Rabbi Emeritus of ...

Rabbi Mark Loeb, who led Beth El Congregation in Pikesville for 32 years until his retirement last year, died Wednesday in Italy, according to a statement on the Beth El Web site.

It's 9 p.m. on a Thursday night, and Rabbi Alysa Stanton still has nine phone messages to retrieve from her office answering machine.