Jewish history from the Exodus until today has been about the ongoing refinement of laws which define who we really are as a people.” ...

(JTA) — Conservative-Masorti Judaism strives to accommodate the rich diversity of the Jewish world. A crucial part of this mission is ensuring that Jews of color feel welcome in our communities and ...

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(RNS) — On Tuesday (Dec. 10), two men opened fire on a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey, ultimately leaving four dead and three wounded in the shooting spree. One of the shooters had ties ...

Preaching Hate. Members of the so-called Church of Yahawashi in Stamford Hill, London, last week. Screenshot from Youtube. Last week, it was reported that a group of Black Hebrew Israelites stood on a ...

Dressed in matching purple hoodies and shirts, with gold fringes attached to the bottom in observance of Deuteronomy 22:12, hundreds of members of a controversial Hebrew Israelite group marched ...

As you can see I’ve been writing a number of book reviews and recommendations recently. I plan to do this on an on-going basis. Because I read a lot of history and people seem interested in getting ...

In the initial media churn, they were nearly missed. But a small band of Hebrew Israelites, members of a historic but little-known American religious movement, may actually be at the center of a ...

Chapter 6 I was wrong. I have heard Deuteronomy in the synagogue before. In fact, I’ve heard Deuteronomy every time I’ve ever been to synagogue. That’s because, as I discovered today, the Shema—the ...

… lest they multiply and should war occur he (Israel) too will join our enemies v’ala min haaretz (normally translated and ‘and so go up out of the land’) (Shemot/ Exodus 1:10) Based on this verse, ...