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September 14, 2003

If the World Union for Progressive Judaism holds up the Siberian city of Tuymen as its model community in Russia, then Omsk represents a failure for the Reform group. While the WUPJ established a foothold in Omsk in 1991, Jewish leaders in the city later

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The Karaites — members of a Jewish offshoot that broke with mainstream Judaism in the eighth century by declaring that Talmudic oral law was a rabbinic invention with no legal authority — are flourishing in Israel despite the emnity of Israeli rabbinic au

When Rabbi Azrael Haikin was elected earlier this month to be Ukraine’s new chief rabbi, many saw it as a positive sign of Jewish renewal in a former Soviet republic. The only problem is that Ukraine already had a chief rabbi, Yaakov Dov Bleich, and he ha

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