The mitzvah of honoring one's parents is not a narrow religious demand but a foundational moral duty.

And although most Jews share a common gene pool, they are becoming more diverse because any non-Jew who converts to Judaism will be recognized as being Jewish by all those rabbis who share a ...

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 ...

Authentic dialogue, he writes, requires that each party be allowed to speak for themself (so, for example, Christian educators should not be the primary source of information about Judaism for their ...

As rabbis, we come to this conversation out of love — love for our communities, our families and the sacred gift of life itself. And we come with a plea: help us, and our loved ones, live and die with ...

Converts to Judaism are often treated as rare exceptions — surprised looks, intrusive questions, comments like “who’s the lucky girl.” Yet conversion is no anomaly. It is now more common than at any ...

Last week, the Chronicle asked its readers in an online poll the following question: “Is intermarriage a threat to Jewish continuity?” Of the 295 people who responded, 52% said yes and 48% said no.

Josh Kalms, people and wildlife officer for Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust, explores how two ideas from Jewish teachings reflect conservation principles ...