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News about Judaism, faith and other religious issues around the world

Rabbi Daniel Lapin. Source: YouTube/Rabbi Daniel Lapin.

‘Judaism has been a colossal marketing failure,’ says Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Once involved in Republican politics, the Orthodox rabbi and coach spends eight hours a day writing, focusing on the roots of conservative ideas.

September 28, 2023

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a speech to the nation in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Sept. 1, 2022. Source: Twitter/@POTUS.

Full text: Biden’s message for Yom Kippur

"As the High Holidays conclude, let us all summon the courage to make the changes required to bridge the gap between the world we see and the world we seek," the U.S. president stated.

September 24, 2023

Sheikh Abdallah bin Bayyah. Credit: U.N. Human Rights Council.

AJC presents Human Dignity Award to Muslim scholar

Shaykh Abdallah Bin Bayyah, a religious jurist in the United Arab Emirates, has nurtured Muslim-Jewish peacebuilding.

September 22, 2023

Performing Tashlich overlooking the beach in Kiryat Yam, a suburb outside of Haifa, on Sept. 30, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Tashlich is more than a spiritual, Marie Kondo purge, experts say

A rich Jewish cultural history surrounds depictions of and objects associated with the High Holidays rite.

Menachem Wecker

September 18, 2023

Apples and honey, a pomegranate and a shofar, all traditionally involved with the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah. Credit: Tomertu/Shutterstock.

In divisive times, Jewish leaders mostly optimistic as High Holidays approach

A congressman, rabbis and Jewish nonprofit heads also shared some of their personal resolutions for the coming year.

Menachem Wecker

September 5, 2023

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman in Judea and Samaria during the filming of the documentary film "Route 60: Israel’s Biblical Highway," which hits theaters on Sept. 18-19, 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

Pompeo & Friedman guide viewers through ‘ancient mysteries’ of Israel’s ‘Route 60: The Biblical Highway’

An all-access 90-minute documentary film produced by America’s former top diplomats and TBN debuts in more than 1,000 theaters across America on Sept. 18-19.

September 5, 2023

The June 4 wedding of Roque Pugliese and Ivana Pezzoli in Calabria, Italy. Credit: Shavei Israel.

Unrecognized Jewish communities in south Italy say they are mistreated

Barbara Aiello, who calls herself Italy’s first female rabbi, runs a synagogue associated with Reconstructionist Judaism. According to Italy’s Jewish community, she represents only herself.

Georgia L. Gilholy

September 1, 2023

Studying Gemara in the Old City of Jerusalem. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Three-and-a-half-inch Gemara up for auction

Royal Auction House is calling the edition the “world’s smallest ever printed.”

August 23, 2023

Rabbi Mendel Kaplan of Chabad Flamingo with former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2009. Credit: Courtesy.

Accidental YouTube sensation Rabbi Mendel Kaplan has led a Toronto Chabad for 25 years

The 52-year-old has ambitious plans to create affordable housing and launch a kollel, among other projects.

August 14, 2023