The schmuckgirls are back this week and are excited because chametz is back on the menu and they’re bringing you the self-proclaimed Nicest Jewish Boy – Jake Offy. On this episode, Libby, Maxine, ...

Rabbi Adam Mintz told JTA that in the weeks immediately following Oct. 7, he and his colleagues “have found an explosion of people who are interested in beginning to explore conversion.” (JTA) — ...

In the mid-20th century, American Jewish reading tastes were shaped by the Cold War, assimilation and the gender gap. In the 1970s, my parents and all the Jewish parents I knew had what I came to call ...

The period immediately following World War II was an era of dramatic transformation for Jews in America. At the start of the 1940s, President Roosevelt had to all but promise that if Americans entered ...

DAVID CRARY and GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO Associated Press — Known as “The Days of Awe,” Judaism’s High Holy Days — which begin on Wednesday — annually provide an emotional mix of celebration, introspection ...

Sometimes you meet people who you don’t know, but it turns out you have many friends in common. Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Schwartz, z”l, seems to have been the type of person with whom I would share ...