In 2016, Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz addressed the largest humanitarian crisis in recent memory: the conflict in Syria and the resulting displacement and death of unfathomable numbers of people. A ...

There is a lot to be angry about. Our political systems are dysfunctional and rife with hateful rhetoric. Headlines about multiple wars abroad are competing for our attention, while at home, we are ...

In my life as a rabbi, it’s quite common for me to hear Jews passionately expressing their dissatisfaction with the latest portrayal of Jews in the mass media: from the Netflix film “You People” to ...

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz dressed up as Santa Claus to give his foster children a proper Christmas experience despite the coronavirus pandemic. Courtesy of Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz Rabbi Dr. Shmuly ...

CANTON – Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz will serve as a scholar-in-residence March 25-26 for a Shabbat of learning and connection at Temple Israel’s Blanche K. Feiman Kallah. His topic will be “Exploring ...

Donald Trump was in Phoenix for a speech on immigration, and Shmuly Yanklowitz wasn’t happy about it. On a late August day, as temperatures topped 100 degrees, the outspoken Orthodox rabbi strode into ...

In the fall of 2007, then-rabbinical student Shmuly Yanklowitz traveled with a few of his colleagues from the Modern Orthodox Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York to San Diego. Wildfires had just ...

Shmuly is an activist and rabbinical student redefining an Orthodox Jewish rabbi's role. Shmuly Yanklowitz is an intellectual rabbinical student at New York City’s Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical ...

As one of Rabbi Yanklowitz’s regular students, I have found a home for Jewish learning in my post-retirement years that I never thought existed. All my previous attempts at learning in the Jewish ...

So often, when we in the U.S. debate a war, we omit much of the globe from the conversation: We do not talk about (or to) rice farmers in Asia or soda vendors in Kenya when discussing the cost of a ...

Shmuly Yanklowitz is the founder and president of Uri L'Tzedek and the author of The Soul of Jewish Social Justice. Some people in poorer countries are compelled to sell their organs on the black ...