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Jewish women serving congregation, denomination, American and world Jewry

A Jewish-lesbian-grandmother-feminist-activist shares her story.

Jews got entangled in the Christian quest to recapture the Holy Land from Muslims.

Scholar Norman Roth questions whether the idea of the medieval Church makes sense as a category of analysis for Jewish history.

This movement originated in the philosophy of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan.

An overview of this Jewish rite of passage for 12- and 13-year-olds.

Differences between a traditional bar and bat mitzvah are all too visible when the honorees are brother and sister.

As girls have become the educational equals of boys in Orthodox Judaism, rabbis need to explore halakhah to create a normative bat mitzvah ceremony.

Originally bar mitzvah meant simply "coming of age." The ceremony developed much later.

For converted children, bar/bat mitzvah is a time for affirming their connections with Judaism.