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Martin Harrow's study tracing the effects of antipsychotics on 139 schizophrenia (SZ) and mood-disordered patients over 20 years, just published in Psychol

Lena and Vladimir Oliker first envisioned moving to Israel in the 1970s. The Soviet Union thwarted those plans, but now they charge that stone-faced Israeli clerks are the ones stopping them fulfilling their long-held dream

The government wants to encourage more Israelis who aren’t officially recognized as Jews to convert, but will its new legislation actually achieve that? Some experts question its chances of success

Welcome to Times Will Tell, the weekly podcast from The Times of Israel. The holiday of Shavuot, or the Feast of Weeks, is here and one of the major themes surrounding this day that marks the giving of the Torah on Mt. Sinai is conversion, which is linked to the reading of the Book of Ruth on this festive day. So this week we’re speaking with Seth Farber, an American-Israeli rabbi and social activist who is a leading expert on conversion. Among other points, we discuss the history of conversion throughout the Diaspora and how it went awry in the Jewish state.

Get email notification for articles from Judy Maltz Follow Apr. 29, 2021 1:22 PM A lawyer representing the Interior Ministry disclosed in a court hearing in Jerusalem last week that decisionmakers regularly defer to the Chief Rabbinate, a rigidly Orthodox institution, when considering immigration applications submitted by converts. The Rabbinate is not supposed to be involved in determining whether converts to Judaism are eligible for aliyah. Indeed, according to the Law of Return, any individual who has undergone conversion – whether Orthodox or not – can immigrate to Israel and receive...