The program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...

At Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, rabbinical students typically pray together and practice leading services as a part of their studies. They pore over Jewish texts in groups of two ...

A first-of-its-kind national school voucher program is being hailed by some Jewish groups as a breakthrough — and mourned by others as a hammer blow to the separation of church and state. The ...

This course will introduce you to the foundational components of the Jewish Professional Leadership degree: a) an introduction to Jewish communal life and its organization, b) thinking about ...

(The Conversation) — A court decision allowing Israeli women to take the Chief Rabbinate’s exams is the latest sign of growing recognition for women’s religious learning within Orthodox Judaism. (The ...

From a bar mitzvah in Jerusalem to Friday nights at Chabad at Emory, Joshua Glazer shares his journey of finding God through ...

A sudden change in leadership at Indiana University’s Jewish studies program has erupted into a bitter internal feud, pitting a new interim director against faculty and students who say he is ...

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Months after a Supreme Court deadlock blocked an attempt by a Catholic church to create the nation’s first openly religious, publicly funded charter school, a Jewish group is now advancing a similar ...