Yaacov Weintraub was a teenager in the 1980s when he met Shlomo Carlebach at a weekend retreat. Like many others, Weintraub was drawn to the singing, guitar-playing rabbi who called himself just ...

For most of the 20th century, liberal Judaism, proud of its rational, academic underpinnings, had distanced itself from — sometimes even disparaging — the mystical, fanciful chasidim of Eastern Europe ...

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924 - 2014) is considered one of the most significant Jewish spiritual leaders of the 20th and 21st centuries. A Holocaust survivor initially associated with ...