In a recent essay on the Jewish feminist site Alma, a young woman explained that she had converted to Judaism while maintaining her atheist beliefs. Abby Jo Morris grew up an evangelical Christian.

(JTA) — Martin S. Rozenberg, a rabbi and Bible scholar who convinced one of his synagogue benefactors to finance the creation of the Reform movement’s Camp Harlam in Kunkletown, Pennsylvania, died Nov ...

“To be stringent in the laws of conversion is to be lenient on assimilation.” This clever play on halakhic lingo is the brainchild of Rabbi Haim Amsellem, this generation’s leading rabbinic scholar on ...

(RNS) — Vanessa Bloom recalls her rabbi gently reminding her that she still had time to walk away. But she felt compelled toward the Jewish faith. “I knew my fate was already tied to the Jewish people ...

I thought the need for this conversation would have disappeared. Like, a few decades ago. I cannot believe I have to say this. Again. But, here goes. The other day, I was talking to someone about a ...

The arrival here of one of the few extant copies of the Samaritan Bible in the original, a hand-written manuscript of the Hebrew Pentateuch dating from the 15th century, has been announced by Rabbi ...