Readers of Israel’s Haaretz.com, many of them liberal and secular, must have been surprised to read, in late October, a public manifesto, signed by 42 members of the Rabbinical Council of America ...

I never did like the name “Open Orthodoxy”. It doesn’t take a Talmudic genius to see its not-so-subtle insinuation, that the rest of the Orthodox world is somehow…“closed.” Closed, though, to what? To ...

Zionism thrived on diversity, but rising orthodoxy risks shrinking the movement and alienating Jews with differing views on religion and policy. Zionism has always been a diverse movement in members ...

A man was found dead in a vehicle by police near the Lodge Freeway Service Drive in Detroit. LOS ANGELES – Often when a potential convert walks through the doors of his church, one of the first things ...

The other day, I read Carl Trueman's piece in First Things titled "David French And The Future Of Orthodox Protestantism". Nowhere in the short essay is "orthodox Protestantism" defined. In the ...

There are two ways to look at the controversy raging in the Orthodox world right now over a fledgling movement that calls itself “Open Orthodoxy.” One way is to put the controversy under a microscope ...

As the sun began to rise high above the wine-dark Aegean Sea, the twelve bells of Great Lavra monastery on Mount Athos pealed out a welcome. In the rock-strewn bay at the foot of the 500-ft.

On the third day of Easter, I stood in front of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine. With me was a prominent scholar of American religion who was visiting Eastern Europe for the first time. We ...

In Jerusalem last week, more than 1,600 rabbis and laymen gathered at the marble-colonnaded Hechal Shlomo (Solomon’s Palace) for the first world conference of Orthodox Jewry. Although Orthodoxy is ...

COMMENTARY: Despite the lamentable developments in Ukraine and beyond in 2022, it’s possible 2023 could herald long-desired ecumenical breakthroughs. Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew ...

This is the year's midnight. There's a hush to the dark, short days between Christmas and the New Year. Some still see it as a sacred time, a period of meditation. Others - now the great majority - ...

I was waiting to see something definite before posting about it, but I’m leaving tomorrow for Italy, and I’m afraid that it’ll happen while I’m on the book tour, and I will not have the opportunity to ...