Judaism News

US Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday night lauded the influence of Judaism on the United States, specifically mentioning the efforts of Jews on gay rights issues, according a report on the Politico website.

THE IGBO: JEWS OF NIGERIA? Several years ago, the Internet was introduced into the more rural parts of southeast Nigeria.

"Under the 1970 Knesset amendment to the Law of Return refuge is available to the: " child and a grandchild of a Jew , the spouse of a Jew, the spouse of a child of a Jew and the spouse of a grandchild of a Jew" Introduction: The debate over Israel as Zionist is most visibly represented by haredi anti-Zionism. But there is also a secular effort to ... (more)

Former IDF chief rabbi Brig.- Gen. Avichai Rontzki has been appointed to head up the new Directorate for Jewish Identity, which has been created within the Religious Services Ministry.

"In the end," says curator Louis Levine of his latest exhibit, dedicated to the life of the poet Hannah Senesh, "this is not a Holocaust story.

Alone bell tolls from somewhere close by, not an unfamiliar sound when you're in Italy, but at this moment it's rather more poignant.

A Palestinian throws back a tear gas canister at security forces, unseen, during clashes May 15 outside an Israeli military prison near the West Bank town of Ramalla.

Are Jews genetically homogenous? Though it's certainly been a loaded question historically, the quandary has been the domain of scientists for a number of years now, all of whom have pretty much come up with the same answer: yes.

Imagine how dynamic Jewish life could be in Israel if the Chief Rabbinate were reduced to a bare minimum and the vast majority of religious services.

Fundamentally Freund: One Israeli I know who defines himself as secular told me that he had to work long and hard to convince his fiance to get married by a rabbi here in Israel.

The State Department appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism Monday as a new report documents a global increase in incidents of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.

My first reaction to the ugly confrontation at the Western Wall on Friday was to be appalled and sickened.

A new DVD on the Jewish claim to Jerusalem will feature Sir Martin Gilbert, the leading historian, who is recovering from a stroke.

Question: A very Orthodox man came to our door collecting for a school which helps special needs children in Israel.

I was standing in Auschwitz last month when news filtered through that Margaret Thatcher had died.

While there are many disagreements about the future of the Jewish community, the direction which it is taking and the ways that it may change, one issue seems to be agreed upon by all sides - the importance of Jewish education as a way of imparting a strong Jewish identity to the next generation.

Meretz MK: Bayit Yehudi in charge of religious services is just a change from a black kipa to a knitted one.

The Church felt obliged to change some of it after Jewish leaders sought to interfere, one complaining that it was "an outrage to everything that interfaith dialogue stands for... and closes the door on meaningful dialogue". Another said "it reads like an Inquisition-era polemic against Jews and Judaism." The Israeli ambassador moaned that it ... (more)

It is fashionable among many Christians today to regard anything that is habitual to be "unspiritual." Habitualness smacks of cold religious formalism rather than the warm, spontaneous response of the human spirit to God.

Yet, two centuries of Christian Colonialism prevented him and many other Igbo from exploring that connection further.