Rabbi Akiva has been on my mind lately for several reasons. On that last point, I received a question recently from a friend who also turned 40 and needed some direction. The e-mail said: “I just ...

Bavaria Fiction is currently filming a documentary about Akiva Weingarten, showing his journey from an ultra-Orthodox community in New York to becoming a liberal rabbi in Germany. The 60-minute ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - The Jewish observance of Hanukkah ends after Sunday night. The Congregation Beth-Israel celebrated the final night of the eight day festival at Gulfport Premium Outlets.

Rabbi Akiva strode briskly into his candle-lit, austere study, his tallis draped around him, the fringes caressing the floor. His staccato gait belied the fact that he was in his 80s. A desk, a few ...

Though genius is often equated with precocity, a quick search of “famous late bloomers” turns up David Sedaris, Julia Child, Alfred Hitchcock, and Laura Ingalls Wilder, to name a very few. Though he ...