Rabbi Jacob Pressman, spiritual leader of Temple Beth Am for 35 years, community leader and civil rights activist, died peacefully at his home on Thursday morning, Oct. 1. Funeral services will be ...

(JTA) — The Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly appointed Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal as its new chief executive. Blumenthal, the spiritual leader at Shaare Torah in Gaithersburg, Maryland, will ...

Somewhere, I’d like to imagine, my late father, Professor and Rabbi Jacob Neusner, is greeting Pope Benedict XVI in the heavenly abode, ready to renew their friendship and the scholarly disputation ...

Jon Ossoff, the newly elected U.S. senator from Georgia, will be sworn in Jan. 20 using a Hebrew Bible that belonged to Rabbi Jacob M. Rothschild. Rothschild, who died in 1973, is an icon of the ...

RHINEBECK, N.Y. >> Rabbi Jacob Neusner, a noted Jewish scholar/author and longtime Bard College professor, died Saturday. Neusner, 84, was a professor emeritus of History and Theology of Judaism and a ...

Rabbi Jacob Adler will be teaching an Introduction to Judaism course at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville this fall. The class, which meets from 2-3:15 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, encompasses ...

(New York Jewish Week) — I had a lot of fun last week talking with Scott Seligman about his new book, “The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902.” It’s about how poor Jewish women on the Lower East Side, ...