ArtRabbis turned into rock stars at Chabad art showNatalia Rabinowitz grew up in a secular home surrounded by music, becoming more observant as an adult. Her latest collection brings together both these worldsBy Alma Green3 min read
GatesheadGateshead welcomes its new RavRav Yisroel Mantel has been inaugurated in his new role as head of the north-east Charedi communityBy Simon Rocker1 min read
Jewish booksThe rabbi who wanted to become a rich manIrwin Katsof pursued Tevye’s dream because he wanted to give more to charity but found the road harder than he had reckonedBy Simon Rocker4 min read
Life after deathEternal dreams: the elusive idea of life after deathJewish doctrine is flexible about what happens when we take our leave of this worldBy Simon Eder3 min read
Leeds UHCRabbi Alby Chait to leave Leeds pulpitHe joined United Hebrew Congregation as a teenager and rose to become its senior rabbiBy Simon Rocker2 min read
TanachThe Church’s influence on the ChumashThe chapter divisions in the Tanach we now take for granted came from outside the Jewish traditionBy Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain3 min read
IsraelIsraeli chief rabbinate to accept female applicants for rabbinical exams for first time everThe policy change has been confirmed following a landmark Supreme Court ruling last yearBy Jacob Jaffa1 min read
A good leader knows when to adaptMoses’s model was anything but mechanical obedienceBy Rabbi Elchonon Feldman4 min read||February 8, 2026 15:47
NNLS members approve choice of new rabbiRabbi Danny Nevins from New York won 93.5 per cent of congregational voteBy JC Reporter1 min read||January 8, 2026 16:34
I have just had my bat mitzvah… at the age of 33Sascha Lavin had little Jewish upbringing but became determined to embrace her religious heritage as an adultBy Simon Rocker4 min read||November 23, 2025 11:36
I never intended to be a rabbi: How Rabbis Shlomo Levin and Joseph Dweck found their pulpitTwo leading Orthodox rabbis revealed how they came to accept their vocationBy Simon Rocker4 min read||November 17, 2025 11:28
You can’t always keep politics out of the pulpitRabbis can’t be expected to shy away from contentious issuesBy Simon Rocker4 min read||November 16, 2025 11:54
New York rabbi all set to fill the Gateshead voidRav Yisroel Mantel is due to visit the Tyneside community at the weekendBy Simon Rocker1 min read||November 5, 2025 12:50
Meet the ‘Zoo Rabbi’ on a mission to explain Judaism through wildlifeNatan Slifkin’s passion for the natural world – and its biblical depictions – has led to a unique careerBy Simon Rocker6 min read||October 9, 2025 15:20
Over 100 rabbis question EU leaders over ‘future for Jews in Europe’More than 130 rabbis called for greater protection for synagogues and community sites amid surging antisemitism across the continentBy Jamie Shapiro2 min read||September 18, 2025 14:45
I’m a rabbi and so is my wife. This is why our marriage worksJonathan Romain, one half of Britain’s first rabbinic couple, talks to ministers who have followed in his footstepsBy Jonathan Romain4 min read||September 17, 2025 12:07
