Pastner is the son of Hal Pastner, a prominent AAU Basketball Coach in the Houston area. Sensing that his future was more ...

(The Nosher via JTA) — Everyone enjoys a good recipe hack, and I think you will love this one: two ingredient rugelach! That’s right: just a package of puff pastry, filling and that’s it. You can make ...

A Reform rabbi and an Orthodox rabbi were my mentors, my guides and my inspirations to become a rabbi. Rabbi Joseph Weizenbaum, z’l, the Reform rabbi of my youth, my bat mitzvah, and my teenage ...

With summer barbecue season finally here, Americans everywhere will be firing up their grills and feasting on their favorite foods. But many of our culinary indulgences come with a cost. We’re not ...

NEW YORK (JTA) – The leaders of a liberal Orthodox rabbinical school are standing behind their decision to deny ordination to a rabbinical student who is openly gay, even as Jewish LGBTQ leaders have ...

My mother, Mildred Harris (known as “Millie”), came from a religious, Jewish immigrant family that settled in the small New ...

The eight-day remembrance of Moses leading the Jews out of slavery in Egypt starts Monday at sundown. If you’re looking for something besides “The Ten Commandments” or “The Prince of Egypt” to watch ...

Many Tucsonans are surprised to learn that the Jewish community sponsors not one but two nationally recognized independent housing communities for low and very low income seniors: B’nai B’rith ...

(JTA) — It’s life imitating art over at New York City’s Off-Broadway production of “Fiddler on the Roof” in Yiddish. Stephanie Lynne Mason and Drew Seigla, who play the young couple Hodl and Perchik ...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Recent alarming events in Poland, most notably a law “protecting the reputation of the Polish nation” by criminalizing certain speech regarding the Holocaust, have led me to reflect ...

Following the bill’s passing Friday in the Sejm, or the lower house of the Polish parliament — it awaits the approval of the Senate and the president — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called ...