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Community members gather at the interfaith event to discuss antisemitism on June 24 (Photo by Octavia Liku)
June 29, 2026, 12:24 pm
Interfaith leaders reflect on year of ‘reckoning with antisemitism,’ launch new book
“There is room for everybody in this work.”
By Octavia Liku
“Destruction of the Jerusalem Temple” (By Francesco Hayez, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
June 21, 2026, 4:05 pm
Origins of the Three Weeks
Time to reflect not just on biblical and historical events that occurred on these days, but also to examine the most difficult moments in our own lives.
By Tim Miller
The campus of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 21, 2019. (Warren LeMay via Creative Commons)
April 16, 2026, 1:06 pm
As Ohio tries to block closure of Reform seminary, a new rabbinical school emerges in Cincinnati
The College for Contemporary Judaism pledges to fill a role soon to be vacated by the Reform movement’s historic midwest flagship.
By Andrew Lapin
Washington State Cougars quarterback Zevi Eckhaus, who was raised Orthodox, is honored as one of the team's seniors before the game against the Oregon State Beavers, Nov. 29, 2025, at Martin Stadium in Pullman, Washington. (Oliver McKenna/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
December 2, 2025, 9:28 am
Meet Zevi Eckhaus, the bowl-bound Jewish quarterback who prays at the 18-yard line
Eckhaus, who plays for the Washington State Cougars, was raised Orthodox and is one of few Jewish players in NCAA Division I football.
By Joseph Strauss
Inside a synagogue sanctuary, as new research sheds light on how fewer rabbis are choosing pulpit life. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
November 12, 2025, 10:47 am
Empirical study of US rabbinate finds ‘shortage’ is more about fit than numbers
The rabbinate is older, happier and more diverse than previously known, according to the study.
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Rabbi Jamie Field poses as a contestant for "Squid Game: The Challenge" on Netflix. (Tom Dymond/Netflix)
November 5, 2025, 3:01 pm
This Reform rabbi is one of 456 competitors on Season 2 of Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’
On Netflix’s “Squid Game: The Challenge,” Rabbi Jamie Field said she was “representing the rabbinate as best I could.”
By Grace Gilson
The new Aron ha-Kodesh at Camp Tel Yehudah (Photo courtesy of Camp Tel Yehudah)
October 16, 2025, 9:46 am
Pittsburgh Catholics partner with Philly man to create new Torah ark for Jewish camp
Pittsburgh's Sirofchuck family worked together to create the new Aron ha-Kodesh for Camp Tel Yehuda.
By Braden Hamelin
At sunset by the water, Rabbi Ari Yehuda Saks leads a blessing with wine in hand and tallit draped over the shoulders (Courtesy / Moti Dolgin)
August 12, 2025, 9:31 am
Third-generation Conservative rabbi resigns from movement after facing punishment for performing intermarriages
He believes interfaith weddings can be done in accordance with Jewish law.
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Tisha B’av painting (Image by Valery Rybakou via iStock)
July 29, 2025, 1:46 pm
The quiet power of Tisha B’Av
Other religions can pretend to offer answers; Judaism seems best at offering meaning in the absence of answers.
By Tim Miller
Kehillat Israel Reconstructionist Congregation in Pacific Palisades, California, as it appeared in May 2024. (Google Maps, screenshot)
July 23, 2025, 9:18 am
Reconstructionist congregation moves to cut ties with the denomination over Israel tensions
Kehillat Israel’s move exemplifies fractures in progressive Judaism after Oct. 7.
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Alan Iszauk at the bimah where he was bar mitzvahed, married, and still prays. The sanctuary’s blue stained-glass windows cast an ethereal glow onto the room. (Photo by Benyamin Cohen)
July 10, 2025, 9:37 am
This town lost most of its Jews. But not its Judaism
A century-old Orthodox synagogue in a Rust Belt town lost most of its congregation, its rabbis, and almost everything else — but not its daily minyan
By Benyamin Cohen
The river Nid offers picturesque views in Trondheim, Norway, home to one of the northernmost Jewish communities in the world. (Getty Images)
July 9, 2025, 9:33 am
This northern Norway city has adopted a one-of-a-kind approach to observing Shabbat
The synagogue in Trondheim is marking its 100th anniversary in 2025.
By Dan Fellner
A sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, D.C., United States, on May 28, 2025. (STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
July 8, 2025, 8:04 am
IRS says religious institutions may endorse candidates, undoing a longstanding ban
The Johnson Amendment does not apply to houses of worship speaking to their congregations, the agency has ruled.
By Philissa Cramer
Conservative Judaism has been trying to chart a middle path between Jewish tradition and acceptance of the reality of interfaith families. (Stock photo/Burke/Triolo Productions via Getty Images)
July 2, 2025, 3:24 pm
In a first for Conservative Judaism, synagogue allows clergy to participate in interfaith weddings
The policy change at Adath Jeshurun Congregation, a large synagogue in suburban Minneapolis, goes against rules set by the Conservative movement.
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
(Image by Peggy Marco via Pixabay)
June 11, 2025, 3:43 pm
Exile in every generation: On Jewish loneliness and longing
Judaism’s genius is its portability — but with it comes a painful, persistent sense of never fully arriving.
By Tim Miller
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