Judaism News

Over the past couple weeks several Jewish newspapers/websites have featured a story about former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, who is currently awaiting trial on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

When he was six years old, Russian-Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman held out his hands for inspection at the Ukrainian school for musically gifted children.

The week seemed set to be a happy one for Todd and Naomi Cohn, the start of a new beginning.

A Jacksonville synagogue is trying to get the word out about Judaism. Congregation Avahath Chesed will offer "A Taste of Judaism," a three-session examination of Jewish values and spirituality from 7 to 8:30 p.m. July 9, 16 and 23 at the synagogue, 8727 San Jose Blvd.

The Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, issued a rallying cry for Jews today to defend their schools from English law after the court of appeal decided that admission on the basis of a parent's Jewish status was discriminatory.

Britain's Jewish community is in an uproar over the Court of Appeal's ruling that a policy, exercised by many Jewish schools in the United Kingdom, of not accepting students whose mothers are not Jewish is racist.

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The Fourth of July is a time for the American Jewish community to celebrate the unprecedented freedom that the United States has afforded its Jewish citizens.

Sayyid Syeed remembers an interfaith event several years ago when a Jewish leader went to embrace him, saw someone snapping a photo, then suddenly pulled back.

For years it was hard to swallow the comparisons that some observers on the left made between Israel and South Africa, and especially their use of the word apartheid, which seemed exaggerated and even harmful when applied to a complicated conflict.

The recent ordination by the Reform Movement of Alyssa Stanton, a black woman rabbi who had converted to Judaism, provides an occasion to explode some commonly held myths about Judaism and the Jewish people.

One of the most significant archeological finds of the 20th century will soon be on display at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum.

Gay marriage is illegal in Florida, but commitment ceremonies aren't. Now, a conservative rabbi has decided to offer the ceremonies at his temple.

When Rabbi Aaron Katz walks the streets of Warsaw's former Jewish quarter, scenes of that lost world fill his imagination: Families headed to synagogue, women in their kitchens cooking Sabbath meals, his father as a boy with the sidecurls of an Orthodox Jew.

AT DUSK on the Sabbath, few things are more spectacular in Jerusalem than the fascinating passing parade of fur hats moving inexorably towards the Western Wall.

Jewish leadership is beginning to show a softer, more feminine face, with women flocking to the pulpit and much of the Jewish world becoming more comfortable with the notion of female religious leaders.

In the 1970s, Chevy Chase made a name for himself by taking down - literally - the reputation of President Gerald R. Ford.

For a man who has spent his life traversing the planet pursuing the divine, Huston Smith's world has grown rather small.

The ruling that a Jewish school's admissions criteria is unlawful raises questions about the scope of race discrimination It's been an interesting week for the Race Relations Act.

Luis Alberto Prieto Vargas, a Colombian convert to Judaism, speaks to a conference in Colombia about his quest to be recognized as a Jew, May 2009.