Rabbi

This reform rabbi is one of 456 competitors on season 2 of Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’

Meet Rabbi Jamie Field, one of 456 competitors on the new season of Squid Game. She sees "so much Torah" in the show's intense moments, making connections with an Anglican priest and others.

Rabbi Jamie Field poses as a contestant for "Squid Game: The Challenge" on Netflix.
Rawan Osman

Polish president, EJA warn of rising antisemitism as Europe marks Kristallnacht

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) react on stage during a "New York is Not For Sale" rally at Forest Hills Stadium, in the Queens borough of New York City, U.S., October 26, 2025

A second rabbinic letter, arguing against Jewish rejections of Mamdani, enters the NYC mayor’s race

New York City Police Department Chaplain Rabbi Alvin Kass seen giving the invocation at the State of the City Address at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Symphony Space in New York City, Jan. 10, 2019.

Rabbi Alvin Kass, longest-serving NYPD chaplain famed for 9/11 response, dies at 89


Police arrest, interrogate rabbi, add'l suspect for inciting violence in West Bank

The rabbi, who remained anonymous, was accused of inciting violence during the riots at the West Bank village of Burkin, which was home to the terrorist who killed Tzeela Gez and her son.

A Palestinian man looks at Israeli flags placed over a demolished Palestinian house in Bruqin, in the West Bank, May 23, 2025

Father of slain IDF soldier Rabbi Doron Perez to be new World Zionist Organization chair

Perez is set to become the World Zionist Organization chair as part of a power-sharing rotation between World Mizrachi and Yesh Atid, which will take charge in the second half of the term.

Rabbi Doron Perez, 55, embraces his daughter Shira Perez, in their home in Yad Binyamin, Israel October 19, 2023.

Israel's most visible rabbinic defenders are not recognized as rabbis by the Jewish state - opinion

The two most visible Jewish defenders of Israel in the world’s largest Jewish city are rabbis whom Israel’s own religious establishment does not recognize as rabbis.

RABBI ANGELA BUCHDAHL speaks at a Hanukkah reception with then-US president Joe Biden at the White House in 2023. The future of the Jewish people will depend on who shows up and speaks when Israel and its people need to be defended, the writer asserts.

The great silence: How the American rabbinate lost its nerve - opinion

The next generation of Jewish leaders must rediscover that bite because soft sermons and viral hashtags will not save the future of American Jewry. It will be saved by courage.

A mayoral candidate forum hosted by B’nai Jeshurun, Congregation Beth Elohim, Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, and New York Jewish Agenda on June 8.

Ex-Sephardi chief rabbi slams Tel Aviv rabbi as 'heretic' after he calls for haredi IDF enlistment

Rabbi Tamir Granot's son, Capt. Amitay Zvi Granot, was killed shortly after Hamas's October 7 attack in an incident on the Lebanon border while fighting Hezbollah. 

 Shas spiritual leader and former Sephardic chief rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, seen during a weekly lecture at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem, June 07, 2025; illustrative.

Your Investments: Noah's post-flood decision offers a powerful lesson on retirement - opinion

Your investments: My retirement date, every time you ask me that, I’m going to say five years. I don’t want to retire – Jamie Dimon

 Noah's ark in a stormy sea, lightning strikes, divine light of salvation, the concept of the biblical global flood.

American Jewry's final sermon: Is this the quiet end of normal Jewish life in America? - opinion

In the wake of October 7, as antisemitism resurged from campuses to city halls, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove’s warning about Zohran Mamdani landed as a mirror of American Jewry’s paralysis. 

 Rabbi Cosgrove

WATCH: Russian drone attack damages Kyiv synagogue, chief rabbi announces

A Russian drone strike hit a synagogue and residential buildings in Kyiv’s Podil district, reportedly wounding four people and causing major roof damage.

Chief Rabbi Moshe Azman outside Podil synagogue in Kyiv after a Russian drone damaged the building, October 22, 2025.

'Yes! I am Jewish’: How a Jewish Korean princess was ordained as a rabbi - review

In her book Heart of a Stranger, Buchdahl tells the story of her life. She ends each chapter with a homily applying a sacred text to contemporary faith, values, and behavior.

ANGELA BUCHDAHL in 2013. She was ordained as a cantor in 1999 at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion before going on to become a rabbi.

In fond memory of Rabbi David Ebner: My sharp, sensitive, story-telling rebbe - opinion

When he led us in prayer, we felt the heavens open. Amid the awe, he would sweep us up in joyous dance, drawing his students into the profound intensity of his prayers.

RABBI DR. DAVID EBNER: His approach set a yeshiva-wide tone of intellectual rigor combined with warmth, kindness, and compassion.

When the time comes - short story

A short story based on Rabbi Akiva’s final days.

An AI-generated image of Rabbi Akiva.