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The film stars Tony Award® nominee Josh Young (Broadway’s Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita) as Shlomo, Nya (star of the recent Cleopatra and the Broadway revival of Caroline or Change) as Nina Simone and Emily Padgett (star of Broadway’s Side Show, Rock of Ages, Bright Star, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) as Ruth. Watch the video trailer!

That Israel was a "Jewish state" was made clear in its declaration of independence in 1948. Yet, many have argued that Israel is not a theocracy since the country has no official religion

From Introducing the Death Penalty for Terrorists to Increasing the Jurisdiction of Rabbinical Courts, Here Are Six Pieces of Planned Legislation That Have Been Overshadowed by the Government’s Efforts to Weaken the Supreme Court

In a preliminary vote in February, the Knesset voted to advance a bill to expand the authority of state-run rabbinic courts to allow them handle civil cases.

The Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, 8585 Ojai-Santa Paula Road, is pleased to present “The Edna Project”, a performance by Liz Queler, Seth Farber and Joey Farber, on Sunday,

The number of Jews registering weddings with the state body has decreased since 2011, even as the population has grown by more than 20%, religious advocacy group finds

(RNS) — Critics of proposed judicial reform fear that it would allow the so-called religious parties that make up a crucial swing vote in Israel’s Knesset, or parliament, to impose fervently religious norms on the country’s non-Orthodox majority. 

David Ben Moshe, born David Bonett, first applied for citizenship in 2018 and spent years fighting against the unyielding world of Israeli bureaucracy

For now, the state-issued exams represent a purely symbolic victory, granting female Torah scholars formal recognition with no practical significance

Anticipated coalition likely to have major impact on religion-and-state issues, with reforms on kashrut certification, conversion and LGBT rights expected to be rolled back