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Chabad Messianism & Conversion

Recent stories about conversion standards in Israel have revolved around halakhic observance (or the lack thereof), but an interesting case ...

Kudos to the Orthodox Union for swiftly condemning Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpe’s public remarks that Israeli leaders Ehud Omert, Tzipi ...

Congressman Tom Lantos has announced that he’ll be retiring because of illness. Lantos is the only Holocaust survivor ever elected ...

-An association of hundreds of Israeli rabbis called the Rabbinical Congress for Peace – Pikuach Nefesh recently wrote U.S. President ...

Yesterday, I took in a viewing of Charlie Wilson’s War, the Aaron Sorkin-written, Tom Hanks-acted film about the congressman responsible ...

Last week, I blogged about the closing of the Ziv Tzedakah Fund. Today I received this letter from their Israel ...

The year that might have mattered.

It takes a great deal of courage to leave what is comfortable and enter the wilderness.

For more than 25 years, Danny Siegel, aka the Mitzvah Man, has been distributing money to little-known tzedakah projects primarily ...

Still looking for a holiday gift? Got $25 million just laying around? The Streit’s Matzo factory, prime real estate located ...

The Torah was given early on--available to anyone who seeks it.

Beliefnet has been polling its readers for a little while now, trying to decide on the most inspiring person of ...