Tomorrow night, along with Jews across America and around the world, I’ll be heading to my synagogue to begin observing Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. For most of my life, I attended ...

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Throughout this report, religious switching refers to a change between the religious group in which a person says they were raised (during their childhood) and their religious identity now (in ...

The saga of my Jewish conversion began twenty-five years ago, when I got engaged to my first husband. He’d grown up in an Orthodox family, and his parents, my future in-laws, were devastated that he ...

After a year of war, are we experiencing a historical break between young Jewish people and their elders when it comes to the identification between Judaism and Zionism? As a longtime student of that ...

Discover the significance of the Nine Days of Av and its impact on Jewish history, from ancient disasters to modern conflicts. The Nine Days of Av, culminating in Tisha B'Av (the ninth of Av), are ...

Arms spread with a black kippah on his head, Javier Milei, the Argentine president, presses his forehead against the Western Wall in Jerusalem (see picture) and begins to weep. Overwhelmed, he hugs ...

(RNS) — It has been five years since my father died at the almost biblical age of 98, and I still cannot find his grave. There is a reason for that. He and my late stepmother chose to be buried in a ...

In November 2021, Temple Israel in Springfield, Missouri, began looking for a new rabbi. A quick perusal of job listings from other Reform synagogues left the search committee stunned: Scores of ...

Graydon is the science editor at The Times Literary Supplement. He has published short fiction and has been longlisted for an Alpine Fellowship. He studied English Language and Literature at the ...