Rabbi Asher Lopatin of Chicago is set to succeed Rabbi Avi Weiss next year at the helm of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, the liberal Orthodox rabbinical school founded by Weiss. Lopatin is the spiritual ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — Asher Lopatin, the president of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, a liberal Orthodox rabbinical school in New York City, announced that he will be leaving his post at the end of the academic ...

In a surprise email to “friends and supporters,” Rabbi Asher Lopatin, president of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School in Riverdale, the Modern Orthodox yeshiva founded in 1999 by maverick Rabbi ...

Our special guest today is Rabbi Asher Lopatin, the spiritual leader of Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel Congregation, a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Chicago. A Rhodes Scholar and a Wexner fellow, he holds a ...

(RNS) — Millennia of Jewish life in Syria came to a close in the 1990s. Today, only around half a dozen elderly Jews are believed to remain. (RNS) — As Jews around the world were preparing for the new ...

Rabbi Asher Lopatin, 52, told The New York Jewish Week that he had no specific professional plans lined up but that he had "lots of different opportunities." NEW YORK (JTA) — The president of Yeshivat ...

When Rabbi Asher Lopatin arrived two weeks ago in Syria for the first time, he was concerned, given the uncertain security situation in a country wrestling with change after the toppling of the ...

1) Israel is the historic and eternal homeland of the Jewish People, and Zionism is the modern expression of that national, religious and moral expression of the Jews’ connection to the Land of Israel ...

Here is my Facebook Status Update: Wishing Israel a happy 64th! I pray that one day the entire world – and the Palestinian people as well – will celebrate with us this great moment in history, when a ...