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From pop stars to tefillin pop-ups, Oct. 7 changed how some Israelis practice Judaism

The spiritual jolt of those first weeks has not fully faded, and increased religious practice has become part of the country’s daily rhythm.

The Israeli TV host Ofira Asayag is secular but lit Shabbat candles on air in 2024, during the Israel Hamas war reflecting a trend among Israelis.
Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli meets with US Reform rabbis in an effort to strengthen ties between Israel and American Jewry in early January 2026.

Diaspora Ministry pairs with US liberal synagogue rabbinical fellowship to strengthen Israel ties

Admiral Kevin Lunday prepares to testify during his confirmation hearing to be the commandant of the US Coast Guard, Nov. 19, 2025, in Washington, DC.

'Outraged and baffled': Jewish groups condemn Coast Guard for secret swastika policy change

THE WRITER leads a service at her synagogue, East End Temple.

Reform Judaism and Zionism: The danger of misrepresentation - opinion


Historic church being housed by a synagogue gets green light for restoration

A relationship has blossomed between the synagogue and the church, which has remained homeless due to the six-alarm fire that destroyed most of the building in 2020.

Star of David stained-glass window in the Wales synagogue

Fighting Israel’s new extremist politics with Maccabean determination - opinion

Loud voices within the new Israeli government are distinguished by their hatred for those who are not like them, the author argues.

 Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, speaks about combating racism at the Reform Biennial in Chicago, Dec. 12, 2019.

Reconstructionist Judaism moves to back reparations for African Americans

Representatives of 47 congregations voted in support of a resolution that endorsed reparations for Black Americans. 11 abstained and none voted against.

 Rabbi Deborah Waxman is president and CEO of Reconstructing Judaism.

Jewish people from all over the world are family, we are family - opinion

Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef called Conservative and Reform Judaism a "new religion," earlier this month.

 SEPHARDI CHIEF Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef delivers an address. ‘I feel that it’s important for me to remind Rabbi Yosef that Israel was established to bring Jews in the Diaspora close to her, not to ostracize them,’ says the writer.

Why your synagogue, and mine, needs a pickleball court - opinion

Pickleball, the subject of countless breathless articles calling it the fastest growing sport in America, is essentially tennis for people with terrible knees.

 Boaz Lazarus-Klein, 12, awaits a return during a pickleball match at Congregation Shir Shalom near Buffalo, New York, where his father Alexander is the rabbi.

Battle lines deepen in bruising fight for control of Germany’s liberal Jewish institutions

It is virtually assured that yet more slings and arrows will fly before all is said and done - the UPJ could even break apart.

POTSDAM UNIVERSITY – ‘the new nucleus of Jewish Studies in Germany.’

He’Brew maker Shmaltz Brewing relaunches with new owner: a rabbinical student

Jewish craft beer label, best known for its He’Brew: The Chosen Beer line of drinks, shut down last year after 25 years. Jesse Epstein, a rabbinical student.

 Various beer bottles by Shmaltz Brewery on display in an exhibition on "Jewish brewing stories" at the Jewish Museum in Munich, Germany, April 11, 2016.

Chief Rabbi Yosef: Reform, Conservative Judaism is a new religion

"Have you ever seen a Reformer [Jew] who repented? I didn't see any, there are none. They feel they are okay; that they have a religion, but they have a new religion."

 Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a ceremony of the Israeli police for the Jewish new year at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem on September 22, 2022.

UTJ demands ‘deterrence’ of egalitarian prayer at Western Wall – report

Party will demand to enact ‘serious steps’ to deter people who ‘desecrate the holy place’ by not acting according to the rabbinate and the Kotel rabbi.

 Likud party chairman MK Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands with United Torah Judaism MK Yitzchak Goldknopf a plenum session in the assembly hall of the parliament (Knesset) on November 21, 2022.

Reform rabbi: Netanyahu is 'last brick in the wall' for Israel-diaspora ties

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch tells ‘Post’ of potentially irreparable damage in the Israel-Diaspora relationship with young American Jews

 Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch is the senior rabbi of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City.