PARIS – Joseph Sitruk, a former grand rabbi of France for more than two decades who oversaw a growth in synagogues and Jewish schools, has died after a long illness. He was 71. President Francois ...

Rabbi Joseph Bronner, a distinguished teacher and community leader, died at the age of 97 last month. For many years, Rabbi Bronner taught a weekly Shabbat afternoon class at Kehillat Yavneh in ...

As senior director of The Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network, Rabbi Joseph H. Krakoff has plenty of experience hearing what not to say when trying to console a loved one who is grieving. Now, he’s ...

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There is an inscription on the grave of an architect, Christopher Wren, which reads, "If you want to know about me, don't look down; look around and see what I have done." If you want to know about ...

(JTA) — The United Kingdom’s top Sephardic rabbi became the center of an international controversy after he praised societal acceptance of homosexuality as a “fantastic development.” Rabbi Joseph ...

It's just as the old joke goes: a priest, a pastor, and a rabbi walk into a bar. Except it wasn't a bar the religious power trio walked into last Tuesday. It was The Sheen Center for Thought and ...

(New York Jewish Week) — I had a lot of fun last week talking with Scott Seligman about his new book, “The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902.” It’s about how poor Jewish women on the Lower East Side, ...