Born Robert Allen Zimmerman, in Minnesota, Dylan has the Hebrew name Shabtai (derived from the word Shabbat) Zisl (meaning sweet) ben Avraham, and was bar mitzvahed on May 22, 1954. He attended cheder ...

The new documentary 'Torah Tropical' shows the struggle of Latin American converts to be accepted by the broader Jewish ...

Compelling and comprehensive, this book may nonetheless be an uphill climb for lay readers with little more than a basic ...

Part 1 of 2. Welcome to the experiences of a rav of 43 years who has served in “kiruv”/outreach settings as well as in major ...

Services, liturgy and Shabbat spoke to Hannah Abitbul, now an observant Jew living with her husband and young son.

Lisa Baron Haet coordinates visits from donors, writes reports and grant applications, edits newsletters, and raises ...

The Aliyah of Bete Israel, or Ethiopian Jewry, is a remarkable chapter in Israel’s history. Their return to their ancestral ...

As both a Catholic convert and ethnic Jew, Art Blumberg reflects on complicated spiritual realities on pilgrimage to the Western Wall.

In the greater Orthodox Jewish community, this avoidance is particularly evident when it comes to aggressively addressing the growing issue of exposure to pornography. While it’s true that each ...

There’s a theory out there—wild, audacious, but surprisingly hard to dismiss—that just about everything worth celebrating in Western civilization was dreamed up, built, or perfected by Jews.

Dylan’s “conversion” felt personal to those fans, who saw him as both a role model and a delegate to the non-Jewish world. “It would be hard to overstate the horror that many Jewish Dylan ...