We’re in the middle of counting the Omer, the period of time during which Jewish tradition mourns the passing of 12,000 pairs of Rabbi Akiva’s students. On April 7, another “student” of Rabbi Akiva ...

Rabbi Dr. Reuven Hammer is a Conservative rabbi, scholar of Jewish liturgy, author and lecturer. Rabbi Hammer, who earned his ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary, is a founder of the ...

Rabbi Akiva has been on my mind lately for several reasons. On that last point, I received a question recently from a friend who also turned 40 and needed some direction. The e-mail said: “I just ...

The best psychiatrist I know is my dear friend Dr. Seth Sherman who trained together with me at Harvard Medical School a few years back. A master storyteller, Seth loved to tell us of the time he ...

Join Gila Silverman, director of Jewish lifelong learning with the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program, for a three-week online course titled “Jewish Lives: Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud.” Born in the ...

Literary depictions of love and friendship usually omit the part about cleaning the floor. But one anecdote in the Talmud breaks the pattern: There was once an incident involving a student of Rabbi ...

“I cannot drive to the synagogue I served as rabbi for 10 years. It is about 15 miles from my home in Falmouth, Maine. I slipped on the ice outside that synagogue on December 13, 2009, and sustained a ...

There wasn’t anything quite like the organization Russian American Jewish Experience in Philadelphia before Rabbi Akiva Pollack showed up. Pollack, 45, learned about RAJE in 2009, having just come to ...

The letter written by a a senior member of Israel’s Rabbinical Courts states that rabbis who were ordained by Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, established by Rabbi Avi Weiss of the Bronx in 1999, "call ...