This is the 100th Raffel Ticket weekly column I've written. How the heck did that happen? The underlying explanation has to ...

Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Tarfon were reclining in Bnei Brak. They were discussing the Exodus from Egypt all that night until their students came and said to them: ‘Our teachers, the time has ...

What matters is that we keep narrating and keep the wheel moving. I am struck by the words of Rabbi Tarfon in Pirke Avot 2:16: “It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you at ...

(JTA) — To over 300,000 TikTok followers, Hayim Nissim Cohen was a rabbi who had taken in nine adoptive sons and documented their Jewish lives. But after one of the children spoke out about the ...

The Colombian Jewish community is reeling after an anti-Zionist rabbi was tapped to be the country’s director of religious affairs. Richard Gamboa Ben-Eleazar was appointed to the post in ...

Richard Gamboa Ben-Eleazar and his 'ordination certificate' from the Esoteric Theological Seminary (Images: Facebook / LinkedIn) ...

This is the view of Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein, who was commenting on the recent decision by US President Donald Trump to offer refugee status to Afrikaners, alleging their rights were being ...

JTA — A young woman rabbi attempts to guide others while grappling with her own questions and facing down a community’s utter bewilderment that she is in fact the rabbi. The situation makes a ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. "Passover is a holiday celebrating freedom and liberation," Reno Rabbi Benjamin Zober of Temple Sinai said. The "centerpiece of the holiday ...

A man who attended the Talmudical Academy of Baltimore is suing the Baltimore County school for more than $3 million, alleging that he was sexually molested in the 1970s by a rabbi who was hired to ...