Almost half of Jewish women surveyed said their experience in rabbinical court for a divorce harmed their mental health.

Rabbis who scrutinize the authenticity of people’s Judaism have been criticized by senior Supreme Rabbinical Court judge Rabbi Shlomo Shapira for what he said was overstepping the bounds of ...

I dressed as a frog. I was channeling my namesake Jeremiah and the bullfrog from the song “Joy to the World.” In celebrating ...

Ancient Israel and Judah before Adler’s chosen period and the postbiblical rabbinic Judaism that emerged after it are, in fact, defined by legal and ideological pluralism. Contemporary scholars assume ...

The court ruled that the woman was not competent to make decisions regarding her body or inheritance, invalidating the will ...

Blessed art thou, O Lord, who breakest enemies and humblest arrogant ones. It is important to interpret rabbinic measures against Christians in the context of the general Jewish situation at the end ...

It is one of the greatest honors of my life that my esteemed colleagues at T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights have ...

In her debut book, ‘The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic,’ Gila Fine, a lecturer of rabbinic literature at the Pardes Institute ...

If you encounter a stranger crying in a public place, what do you do? For many people, a natural instinct is avoidance. Rabbi ...

The esteemed rabbis serving in rabbinical courts across European Jewish communities gathered in Israel for a special strengthening mission. They met with leading Torah authorities to discuss ...