Rabbinical marriage counseling works—up to a point

By Marc Ballon
Published on October 5, 2006

Although rabbis can play a positive role in brokering a reconciliation in couples with relatively minor problems, they are generally ill-equipped, both educationally and often temperamentally, to grapple with spousal abuse, depression, bullying and other serious issues that can destroy marriages and souls.

Acts of Faith

By Amy Klein
Published on February 2, 2006

Religion

Community Briefs

By Jewish Journal Staff
Published on March 14, 2002

Community Briefs.

Is It Safe?

By Mike Levy
Published on September 13, 2001

In light of Tuesday's terrorist attacks, synagogues and other Jewish organizations scrambled to evaluate security precautions.

Bringing Liberal and Orthodox Jews Together

By Rabbi Richard N. Levy
Published on July 24, 1997

My two colleagues were Dr. David Lieber, president of the Rabbinical Assembly (Conservative), and Rabbi Rafael Grossman, immediate past president of the Rabbinical Council of America (Orthodox). Rabbi Lieber and I had been moved by the statement that Rabbi Grossman's organization, along with the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, issued earlier this year after the Union of Orthodox Rabbis declared that the movements Rabbi Lieber and I represented were not Judaism.