In a new book, Beth Berkowitz explores how the Torah and Talmud notice the ties between animal parents and their young — and what it means for us today.

For years, Jewish organizations have fought for abortion access as a matter of religious freedom. Jewish law is clear: Life begins at first breath, not fertilization. Until that moment, a pregnancy is ...

"This is an incredible opportunity to build this community of people dedicated to this area of legal scholarship. I’m really ...

A federal judge has thrown out a defamation suit against biracial comedian Sunda Croonquist, ruling her Jewish mother-in-law jokes and other remarks are opinions and thus protected by the First ...

BROOKLYN — A federal court in New York declined to issue an injunction that would have kept an Orthodox Jewish woman and her business from disseminating a seiruv, a sort of civil contempt order issued ...

Several Connecticut Jewish leaders and synagogues have signed on to a national letter denouncing new prohibitions on recipients of a federal security grant, which would ban nonprofits — including ...