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“And in the end, the love you take”
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 28, 2023
My final sermon -- a mix tape with Sinatra, the Monotones, Rav Kook, and Cynthia Ozick. More than four decades of striving for the holy.
In Morocco, conference brings together rabbis from three continents
By David I. Klein — May 22, 2023
(RNS) — Dozens of rabbis affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement gathered in Casablanca, Morocco, last week for a conference aimed at Chabad leaders serving small Jewish communities across Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
Seeking answers in Judaism? It turns out, a rabbi can help.
By Rebekah Tokatlilar — April 17, 2023
(RNS) — Young people told the researchers that rabbis they had encountered had helped them feel more spiritually connected.
US rabbi reviving Jewish roots in her family’s Italian town
By Frances D'emilio — July 20, 2022
SERRASTRETTA, Italy (AP) — Ordained at the Rabbinical Seminary International in New York, she served at a synagogue in Florida for a few years before moving to Italy, where she first worked as a rabbi in Milan from 2004-2005.
‘Jeopardy!’ clergy contestants keep the faith, organize prayer service for Trebek
By Bob Smietana — March 8, 2019
(RNS) — An interfaith group of former 'Jeopardy!' clergy contestants is organizing a prayer service for longtime host Alex Trebek, who recently announced he has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Crash of small plane kills Jewish seminary’s president
By Lauren Markoe — May 7, 2018
(AP) — The seminary Rabbi Aaron Panken led is the leading institution for the training of rabbis in the Reform movement, the largest stream of Judaism in the U.S.
As a rabbi, I will violate the Sabbath to help save lives from gun violence
By Joshua Hammerman — March 20, 2018
(RNS) — Yes, this march is so important that I — a rabbi — am going to blatantly disrupt God’s holy Sabbath. But if the ancient rabbinic sages are to be believed, that’s precisely what God wants me to do.
Four Chaplains Day: honoring the faith leaders who serve our troops
By Abbi Sharofsky — February 2, 2018
(RNS) — Decades later, military chaplains tear up when they speak of these four men.
90 seconds of clergy swapping: UCC video preaches interfaith harmony
By Lauren Markoe — January 24, 2017
(RNS) Most people who have seen it find it moving, though some question preaching in the garb of another faith.
Gene Wilder’s most Jewish moments
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 29, 2016
Gene Wilder's work was very funny. And very Jewish.
She’s black, gay and soon you can call her ‘rabbi’
By Lauren Markoe — May 28, 2015
(RNS) Sandra Lawson was a personal trainer and religious about nothing but fitness. Now she's religious about Judaism.
COMMENTARY: Obscure no more, world’s first woman rabbi receives recognition
By A. James Rudin — July 25, 2014
(RNS) Rabbi Regina Jonas' grim task was to meet the incoming trains and provide counseling to the frightened and bewildered Jews arriving at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Bar mitzvah training goes online in a digital age
By Jordan Friedman — August 15, 2013
(RNS) Some tech-savvy parents are signing up their kids for a more modern brand of bar mitzvah lessons, rather than schlepping them to the synagogue for the traditional one-on-one lessons in person.
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