The national system of Orthodox Jewish religious conversion has not only failed,it has backfired on its protectors.

Conversion in Israel is a lengthy and cumbersome process that combines all the worst attributes of government red-tape, religious corruption, and legal obstructionism.

Israel's attorney general decides not to appeal Jerusalem court's ruling that essentially enables women to pray as they choose at Kotel; Women of the Wall to hold monthly service as usual on Friday, but Naftali Bennett plans to set new regulations by the matter next month.

The gaps between Haredim on one side and religious and secular Israeli Jews on the other go beyond military service and workforce participation. The ultra-Orthodox want to maintain their separatist way of life and to continue to see the state as, at best, a funding source to be exploited as fully as possible.

Closure of newspaper founded in 1960 to leave The Jewish Tribune, published by B'nai Brith Canada, as the community's sole non-regional Jewish publication; not immediately clear as to whether online version will continue.

Rabbi Chaim ben Joseph Vital helped pass down the teachings of Lurianic kabbalah, a school of Jewish mysticism.

Rita Levi-Montalcini, who died last year at 103, helped identify a protein that is responsible for the growth and maintenance of nerve cells.

The Interdisciplinary Center of Herzliya said the institute, named for the Jewish-American Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan, aims to advance quality journalism in the Middle East.

God showing Jonah the light after not destroying Nineveh brings us this Hebrew word for 'ephemeral.'

My daughter chose a challenging way to push back against an American Jewish culture based only on translation from Hebrew sources: To speak to her son only in Hebrew.