While working as a camp director for Camp Tawonga in San Francisco, Jamie Simon went on a walk around the camp with a 17-year ...

The mitzvah of honoring one's parents is not a narrow religious demand but a foundational moral duty.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two thousand years ago, Jews were divided between competing sects all based on the Jewish scriptures, but with different ...

In 'Where We Keep the Light,' the swing-state Democrat provides the most intimate look yet at the centrality of Judaism to ...

The morning also embodied the shifting landscape under Mamdani’s mayorship, in which progressive Jews and Jewish organizations are playing a more central role in New York City politics. Those groups ...

Speaking to a class at one of America’s major rabbinical seminaries, I once remarked in passing that “Judaism is built on the idea that God loves us and beckons us to love God back.” Seemingly ...

From a spartan basement synagogue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson became the spiritual leader to tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews across the globe, a man whose counsel ...

Judaism insists that the body be returned gently to the earth — not because of sentimentality, but because dignity does not ...

This is a book that will open readers’ hearts and minds to Rabbi Riskin’s vision of Judaism, not just as a religion but as a profound and enduring love story. Many years ago, as a student in Rabbi ...

Last week, the Chronicle asked its readers in an online poll the following question: “Is intermarriage a threat to Jewish continuity?” Of the 295 people who responded, 52% said yes and 48% said no.

Tomorrow night, along with Jews across America and around the world, I’ll be heading to my synagogue to begin observing Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. For most of my life, I attended ...