WIESBADEN, Germany – When a Jewish teen saw the adult education classes at U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart, he asked former Religious Education Program director Rebecca Powell why they couldn’t have the ...

Two thousand years ago, Jews were divided between competing sects all based on the Jewish scriptures, but with different interpretations. After the Romans destroyed the Jerusalem Temple in 70 C.E., ...

A century after the famed composer wed Ellin Mackay, a Catholic heiress, their marriage offers a window into how Jewish ...

(WHTM) — What are the families of those killed and injured at the Tree of Life Synagogue seeking? What does the Jewish religion say about the death penalty? The answer to what Jewish people and ...

(JTA) — Almost one in four U.S. adults raised Jewish do not identify as religiously Jewish anymore, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center. The study, published Wednesday, surveyed ...

(The Conversation) — A court decision allowing Israeli women to take the Chief Rabbinate’s exams is the latest sign of growing recognition for women’s religious learning within Orthodox Judaism. (The ...

Queen Esther' is a literary riffing on a biblical story. It also might be the most sympathetic treatment of Jewish themes by ...