By Anne Cohen
The rabbi of today must be a shrewd entrepreneur, media-savvy speaker and compassionate spiritual healer. Are seminaries preparing the next generation for the demands they face?
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By JTA
Across the country, scores of synagogues have overcome denominational differences to merge formally, share space or otherwise collaborate, often due to financial hardships wrought by shrinking Jewish populations.
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By Seth Berkman
The first women to graduate from a groundbreaking Orthodox rabbinical school are being welcomed at synagogues. But others are blasting Yeshivat Maharat for breaking with tradition.
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By Nathan Guttman
The Arab League peace initiative is being revisited as John Kerry seeks ways to restart peace talks. But Israelis see it as a non-starter and Palestinians have their doubts, too.
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By Nathan Jeffay
Women’s activists and the Western Wall’s Orthodox rabbi had first accepted then dismissed a plan to allow egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall. Now they are on board. Why?
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By Paul Berger
It took hours to reach a guilty verdict in the $57 million theft at the Claims Conference for Holocaust survivors. Figuring out how the fraud went undetected could take a lifetime.
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By Nathan Guttman
Israel didn’t notify the U.S. before it launched punishing strikes on Syria. But history says it will have to sit down with Washington before any attack on Iran.
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By Rita Rubin
Scientists have long agreed that Jewish genetics prove we are one people with common origins in the Middle East. Now, that theory is coming under withering attack.
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By JTA
Aliza Sherman, a nurse and mother of four, was stabbed to death in Cleveland. More than a month later, police say they have no suspects — and the community wants answers.
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By A.J. Goldmann and Donald Snyder and Nathan Jeffay
An effort to ban circumcision only recently failed in Germany. Will a rabbi’s video of the controversial practice of metzitzah b’peh reignite the battle?
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Israel's Shas, Right-Wing Kingmaker Party, Takes Sharp Turn to Left
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