Religion

Knesset bill would narrow eligibility for Israel citizenship

Backed by far-right and Orthodox parties, the proposal would revoke the 55-year-old clause of the Law of Return that extends Israeli citizenship to those with only one Jewish grandparent.

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.

Board of Shtetl, news site covering haredi Orthodoxy, resigns after founder renounces mission

“The need for such a news source remains urgent,” the three board members wrote.

Once the poster child of the yeshiva reform movement, Naftuli Moster now has regrets

Ana Levy-Lyons, a former Unitarian Universalist minister and future rabbi, wants to cure what ails the secular left

Conservative flagship’s first woman chancellor, Shuly Rubin Schwartz, to step down in 2026

How teenage teaching assistants play a crucial role at one New York City religious school

For this I became a Jew? Yes, for exactly this I became a Jew.

Messianic and Episcopal communities mourn Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim as their own

The Torah was a gift — and ‘fair use’ is the very point of revelation

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