In the Golan Heights, evidence of a transition from study hall to prayer hall.
A building in a former Jewish neighborhood is definitely not a church.
Where the Three Stooges, Sandy Koufax, and Ed Sullivan all prayed.
When Jews in France were being persecuted, the pope protected those in Carpentras.
And the rabbi who exiled him to Cleveland.
Synagogues and rabbis should focus on what they do best.
An artifact of one of Europe’s oldest Jewish communities.
Ruined cemeteries, celebrations of the Gaon, and the thorny question of collaboration with the Nazis.
“In 1776 we went up to our land.”
The palm trees of Elim and beasts of Daniel at Huqoq.
Nidḥey Israel.
A rabbi’s son recalls the revival of Judaism in the Russian capital.
A religious problem, not a demographic one.
A new survey shows that it’s thriving in ways American Jewry isn’t.
The most polished writing and
sharpest analysis in the Jewish world.