AntisemitismNew York car wash charged extra for Passover service because ‘their cars are so dirty’The business was accused of tripling its prices for visibly Jewish customersBy Vita Fellig2 min read
Reform JudaismOne nation under God: The American rabbis split from their flocks by politicsReligious leaders have felt themselves growing apart from their congregants as ‘toxic polarisation’ swells in the USBy Jay Deitcher8 min read
Jewish datingInside the matchmaking crisis rocking the US Orthodox communityA new report studying the experiences of single American Orthodox men and women reveals unique set of hurdlesBy Eliana Jordan4 min read
MusicTransformative Orthodox composer Yigal CalekLondon musician infused fervour and aspiration into Jewish lifeBy Gloria Tessler4 min read
Rabbi I have a problemCould drugs ever be used to reach a spiritual high?An Orthodox and a Progressive rabbi tackle issues in modern Jewish lifeBy Rabbi Alex Chapper and Rabbi Jonathan Romain3 min read
ChabadA tribute to Chabad visionary Rabbi Shraga Faivish VogelInspirational Chasidic outreach rabbi whose teachings linked Jewish thought with the modern worldBy Dr Tali Loewenthal5 min read
Orthodox JudaismThe rabbi who helped to crack Israel’s Orthodox glass ceilingRabbi Meesh Hammer-Kossoy, one of a growing number of Orthodox women rabbis, will be teaching at this year’s Limmud FestivalBy Simon Rocker2 min read
Goodbye to the ladies’ galleryA standard feature of mainstream Orthodox synagogues is being consigned to history as the demand grows for greater inclusion of womenBy Simon Rocker4 min read||November 17, 2024 11:34
An Orthodox rabbi and Reform journalist share their dialogue over TorahA new book shows how to conduct a heavenly argumentBy Simon Rocker4 min read||November 3, 2024 11:24
Orthodox sex strike ends in New York after ‘chained woman’ Malky is granted a divorceNew York woman at centre of Orthodox protest is granted a get after husband refused to sign document for four yearsBy Jane Prinsley1 min read||September 12, 2024 11:31
Liverpool’s oldest synagogue celebrates its 150th in styleThe architecturally stunning Grade I-listed Orthodox shul, completed in 1874, featured on a King Charles coronation stampBy Daniel Ben-David2 min read||September 6, 2024 17:14
Google Street View captures Canvey Island’s growing Jewish Community on Shabbat‘It’s ironic to see Shabbat immortalised in this way’By Rosa Doherty2 min read||September 4, 2024 16:15
How women rose to Orthodox synagogue leadershipCautious progress rather than rapid change has been the order of the dayBy Simon Rocker4 min read||August 25, 2024 09:52
Online antisemites’ new frontier? The TalmudRabbi Daniel Rowe says criticism of the Talmud is escaping neo-Nazi forums, and becoming mainstreamBy Hannah Gillott 5 min read||August 20, 2024 18:26
Am Yisrael High! Meet the Chasidic campaigner for drug reformOrthodox councillor Andrew Walters wants to free the weed – but not in the way you might thinkBy Lorin Bell-Cross2 min read||July 31, 2024 14:18
Power struggle leaves Israel without chief rabbisPolitics, nepotism and the role of women have left the country's top rabbinical offices vacant for the first time in its historyBy Etgar Lefkovits2 min read||July 8, 2024 11:52
