Four Jewish groups are backing a man who wants to circumcise his son against the mother’s wishes.

The case of Boldt v. Boldt concerns a custodial father who after converting to Judaism wanted to have his son circumcised, according to the American Jewish Committee, which filed a friend-of-the-cour…

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September 13, 2007 — As members of the Jewish faith ushered in Rosh Hashanah at sundown yesterday, the NYPD went into a heightened security mode. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly recently told a gathering of Jewish community and religious leaders there would be a “heightened presence of anti-crime u…

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American Jews and their allies ramped up a campaign this week against a British union promoting an academic boycott of Israel aimed at pressuring it to end its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza — even as some British Jews said the union’s drive was going nowhere.

Several London community l…

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The “other,� the one who is easy to exploit, to demean, treat as though they are less then human.

This is a part of Jewish history. If we could make a claim to any Jewish value, fighting against notions of otherness would seem to be one.

Although politically, many Jews vote liberally…

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When I left for college one of my worries was that I would lose my Jewish identity. It would be difficult to keep kosher, as we had in my house at home and there was no synagogue readily available to attend services at. Celebrating holidays would also be a problem. No more would they be a gath…

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I’ve heard Jewish intellectuals refer to inter-marriage as “The white holocaustâ€? and have seen Kehila leaders struggle with “goyimâ€? in their congregation. “We can’t perform a ceremony for inter-marriageâ€?, said a local Rabbi, “but the minute they are married we do our best to pull t…

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