An influential and outspoken Israeli rabbi has said Israeli soldiers died in battle because they were not ritually observant Jews, sparking outrage in Israel.

Wine, who founded the first congregation of Humanistic Judaism in suburban Detroit in 1963, was killed Saturday in an automobile accident in Essaouira, Morocco, the Society for Humanistic Judaism’s Web site said.

The kosher Internet has been launched. With a host of blocks against surfing prohibited sites, with a small white list of approved sites, and with an identified e-mail address that will enable identifying rogue ultra-orthodox who do not use the kosher Internet, the ultra-orthodox have launched the war against the greatest enemy technology has presented to them: the Internet.

A synagogue of ultra-Orthodox Jews was destroyed by fire on the eve of Passover, raising suspicions Monday that the blaze was deliberately set to target members who participated in an Iranian-led conference on the denial of the Holocaust.

The all-knowing, invisible God, we think of today isn’t present in early chapters of the Bible, Jewish scholar James Kugel says. Instead, those texts describe a walking, talking deity who travels from place to place

The decidedly American reality of diverse Jewish identities and post-denominationalism gave birth Friday to a new Internet site that helps searchers of spirituality and community find a congregation that fits their needs.

Hired rabbis worry some, but others say they bring needed flexibility to events.

In Israel’s vast Negev desert, an Orthodox rabbi is helping impoverished Arab Bedouins with money collected from American evangelical Christians.

Hundreds protest against sect of Holocaust deniers

Today’s politics may convince tomorrow’s generation that it’s simply too dangerous to be both an Iranian and a Jew.

Israel’s El Al airline has come under pressure from the country’s powerful ultra-Orthodox Jews to legally pledge not to fly on the Jewish Sabbath.

The market looking for a perceived healthier option is a growing segment in the kosher market, said Paul Crnkovich, whose company, Cannondale Associates, released a study this month about the kosher consumer.

Was the Dutch 17th century master Rembrandt, a Jew? In the last of a series of exhibitions marking the artist’s 400th birthday, the Jewish Historical Museum here sets out to examine the myth of the painter’s Jewish links.

In a ceremony known as Pulsa D’nura (blows of fire), rabbis of the anti-Zionist Edah Haredit rabbinic court will convene sometime before the march, which is scheduled for Friday, to conduct the kabbalistic ceremony which is believed to unleash unearthly powers against specified sinners.

The Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) has called on Israel to reevaluate its military rules of war in light of Hizbullah's "unconscionable use of civilians, hospitals, ambulances, mosques and the like as human shields, cannon fodder and weapons of asymmetric warfare."

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