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Rabbi Albert Axelrad, shown above in 1982, was chaplain and Hillel rabbi at Brandeis University for 34 years, starting in 1965. (Peter Morris/Fairfax Media via Getty Images via JTA)
September 23, 2026, 8:51 pm
Albert Axelrad, Brandeis Hillel rabbi who championed pluralism and social justice, dies at 87
Brooklyn native was a pioneer of adult b’nai mitzvah and a founder of Boston’s Havurat Shalom, which served as a model for the havurah movement
By Michele Chabin
Rabbi Noa Kushner, founding rabbi of The Kitchen in San Francisco, is the author of 'Pretend You Believe: How to Enter Religion.' (Schocken via JTA)
September 20, 2026, 7:47 pm
We need religion, writes rabbi in her new book, but it’s not there to make our lives better
Noa Kushner urges Jews to stop asking what Judaism can do for them and start asking what it means to enter into a relationship with God in ‘Pretend You Believe,’ on shelves Oct. 13
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
'The Myth of Aging,' by Dr. Arnold Gilberg. (Courtesy)
September 13, 2026, 9:14 am
Pushing 90, this golden age rabbi has written the book on getting older — gratefully
Dr. Arnold Gilberg, a psychiatrist who got rabbinical ordination in his late 70s, draws on science and his own life to make the case for staying engaged, connected and curious with age
By Rich Tenorio
A man works on a fence at a Palestinian-Bedouin family’s house to try to prevent attacks from Israeli settlers on the outskirts of the West Bank town of Taybeh, September 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
September 10, 2026, 2:44 pm
Progressive UK rabbis say West Bank sanctions necessary to combat settler violence
Welcoming measures, several religious leaders denounce ‘repugnant’ violence as counter to Jewish values, in contrast to UK’s chief rabbi, who called announcement a ‘dark day’
By Michael Horovitz
Illustrative: Congregation Beth Israel is the oldest synagogue in Bangor, Maine. (Wikimedia Commons)
August 1, 2026, 1:31 am
Maine rabbis issue joint call for peace, urge politicians to stop calling Gaza war ‘genocide’
All 11 congregational rabbis in state sign onto letter decrying use of term as ‘misleading’ and ‘Holocaust inversion,’ after Democratic Senate primary in which several candidates used label
By Grace Gilson
People walk along a street in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak in central Israel, March 2, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 14, 2026, 10:01 am
Bnei Brak set to implement gender segregation on two main streets
Following ruling by rabbis, city will put up signs and barriers segregating sidewalks, despite Supreme Court ban on practice in 2017
By Michael Horovitz
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at an event for Congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, in New York City, June 23, 2026. (AP/Seth Wenig)
June 26, 2026, 2:01 pm
Over 700 rabbis denounce Mamdani’s AIPAC ‘monsters’ speech as ‘dangerous’ to Jews
Leaders of prominent NY congregations, variety of denominations say mayor has ‘put a target on the backs of American Jews’
By Luke Tress
A protest organized by a large number of Jewish groups gathers outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Headquarters to protest ICE raids and arrests in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2026. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images, via JTA)
March 12, 2026, 9:01 am
‘Do not oppress the stranger’: 1,000-plus US rabbis sign letter backing immigrant rights
Ahead of HIAS’s annual ‘Refugee Shabbat,’ Jewish clergy from 45 states invoke biblical commandments, say ‘tradition is clear’ in support of refugees, immigrants, and asylum seekers
By Grace Gilson
A photo of Andrea Weiss, former provost of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. (Ellen Dubin via JTA)
March 5, 2026, 2:29 pm
Andrea Weiss, trailblazing Reform rabbi who merged scholarship and activism, dies at 60
Former Hebrew Union College provost, the first-ever woman to ordain rabbis in the Reform movement, is praised by colleagues for bringing her ‘whole heart’ to everything she did
By Grace Gilson
Rabbi Yosef Paryzer, who was convicted of of using the alias "Jack Segal" to deceive up to 12 women into having sexual relations with him (Israel Police)
February 19, 2026, 4:14 pm
Jerusalem rabbi gets 20 months for using fake ID to dupe 12 women into sleeping with him
Married father used alias ‘Jack Segal’ on dating sites between 2016 and 2023, posing as secular and single; also ordered to pay up to $4,800 compensation per victim
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
A line of interfaith leaders protest Immigrations and Customs Enforcement at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, Jan. 23, 2026. Rabbi Emma Kippley-Ogman was arrested and briefly detained during the demonstration. (Courtesy of Rabbi Aaron Weininger via JTA)
January 24, 2026, 5:23 am
Minnesota rabbi among dozens arrested in faith leaders’ anti-ICE protest
Rabbi Emma Kippley-Ogman briefly detained while trying to disrupt operations at airport that fellow rabbi says ‘is being used to deport folks’
By Andrew Lapin
Rabbi Rafi Ellenson (left) and Rabbi Arielle Stein (right), the creators of the 'Rabbinic Fit Check' Instagram account. (JTA/Rafi Ellenson)
January 3, 2026, 3:03 am
From a modest start, an Instagram look book for Jewish clergy is starting to take off
With stereotype-breaking ‘what they’re wearing’ posts, rabbis Arielle Stein and Rafi Ellenson showcase the rabbinate’s different stripes on lifestyle account Rabbinic Fit Check
By Grace Gilson
Hannah and Ally Karpel-Pomerantz met as rabbinical school classmates at Hebrew Union College. They are set to be ordained at the end of the school year. (Courtesy via JTA)
November 23, 2025, 3:44 am
Surging LGBTQ enrollment in Jewish seminaries signals ‘astounding’ shift in US rabbinate
A new study provides empirical evidence for a trend many have seen coming for years, as new models and broken barriers bring an influx of leadership from a once-marginalized population
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
FILE: A rabbinical student reads at the Synagogue of the Black Hills in Rapid City, S.D., September 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Kristina Barker)
November 12, 2025, 9:20 pm
Study finds ‘shortage’ of US rabbis is more about fit than numbers
In first-ever empirical study of the American rabbinate, excluding Haredi circles, rabbinic foundation says declining enrollment in rabbinical schools is ‘surmountable challenge’
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani answers questions from the press after hosting a "Reverse Town Hall" with New York union workers on October 17, 2025, in New York City. (Angela Weiss/AFP)
October 23, 2025, 1:23 am
850+ US rabbis sign letter opposing Mamdani and the ‘political normalization’ of anti-Zionism
Letter calling to ‘defend the Jewish future’ rejects ‘false choice’ of ‘treating Jewish self-determination as a negotiable ideal or Jewish inclusion as something to be granted’
By JTA and ToI Staff
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