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Many see attacks as part of a rise in anti-Jewish hate, while others object to conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism

‘Judaism has at its heart the idea that we grapple with one another,’ says Rabbi Josh Levy after historic UK merger of Liberal and Reform traditions

COMMENT: Last month’s declaration by 36 members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews against an escalation of the war in Gaza – in which ‘Israel's soul is being ripped out’ – is not only still reverberating through their own community, but has a much wider significance, writes Donald…

Jewish leaders got front seats at Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration Mass

Merger of Liberal Judaism and Reform Judaism will be first in any major religion for more than half a century

Tens of thousands of people have gathered at Judaism’s holiest site in Jerusalem for the traditional priestly blessing prayer

An Israeli hostage freed in the current ceasefire between Israel and Hamas said faith sustained her during her captivity, and she used the few means that were available to her to observe Judaism

James Mangold’s film “A Complete Unknown,” nominated for eight Oscars, captures the elusive, enigmatic quality of Bob Dylan in the early 1960s: the years he emerged as a major musical and cultural phenomenon. A scant few years after he came to New York from Minnesota, and legally changed his name…

With his new book, the author – once a prominent defender of Israel – hopes to change minds among his peers as he imagines a future of ‘collective liberation’

Other lives: Chair of Liberal Judaism who played a key role in the creation of one united progressive Judaism movement in the UK

"As a result of Plaintiffs' scattered pleading, any serious allegations of actionable discrimination are buried as needles within a haystack of distraction."