The fate of the Great Kotel Compromise
World Jewry may soon feel at home at the Western Wall…if Netanyahu doesn’t pander to his Haredi coalition members
View ArticleHow my childhood shul became a televangelist church
As Jewish facilities shut down across Long Island, a reporter returns to the synagogue of his youth — recently purchased by televangelists affiliated with Joel Osteen
View ArticleWith the Caribbean as their ritual bath, Colombian converts flow to Judaism
Synagogues in Santa Marta and Barranquilla comprised entirely of converts see an influx of members as the country’s Catholic monopoly is cracked
View ArticleOrthodox group joins call for Western Wall compromise
International Rabbinic Fellowship says holy site should be space where all Jews can 'experience the presence of the Divine'
View ArticleRa’anana Reform synagogue vandalized, death threats left with knife
Attackers make reference to Western Wall struggle; progressive leaders call on government to end incitement against non-Orthodox Jews
View ArticleSharansky to serve extra year as Jewish Agency chief
Former prisoner of conscience says he's motivated by need to resolve egalitarian prayer issue at Western Wall
View ArticleAt 10, egalitarian yeshiva wants to expand learning among Jews in the pews
New York's Mechon Hadar seeks to reach out to different denominations, while still emphasizing traditional Torah study
View ArticleA Jewish hipster haven in the heart of Chabad’s Brooklyn territory
Known as Lubavitch Hasidic headquarters since the 1940s, Crown Heights is becoming home to a new kind of Jew
View ArticleWomen Torah readers at French synagogue threatened, insulted
Marseille's chief rabbi condemns the reading, says it 'offends the sensibilities of the public'
View ArticleHow Rabbi Shai Held is shaping the conversation around love and politics
The scholar wants to overcome the stereotype that ‘secular Jews are political activists' and 'religious Jews do mitzvahs,' saying he's 'never heard of a more false dichotomy'
View ArticleTorah scroll that women helped write to be unveiled in Madrid
Hailed as Spain's first egalitarian Torah, scroll is also the first written from start to end in the country in 500 years
View ArticleTraditional, egalitarian Yeshivat Hadar plans to ordain rabbis
New York City educational institute says selected students will be eligible for full-time study program lasting four years and leading to rabbinic ordination
View ArticleThe Jewish egalitarian revolution that almost was in Renaissance Italy
15th century 'feminist' prayer books open a window into the Jewish world’s female scribes, first published poetess, and first evidence of women-centric prayer
View ArticleChicago and Washington to get egalitarian alternatives to traditional yeshivas
Hadar, the New York-based egalitarian yeshiva, to open a program in Chicago, while in DC Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld plans to open Orthodox yeshiva for people of all backgrounds
View ArticleWho counts as a Jew? Pioneering yeshiva fumbles admissions criteria, renewing...
NY's Hadar quickly removes erroneous language on website saying applicants should have two Jewish parents, but sparks heated conversation about egalitarianism and Jewish identity
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