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The Guardian reported earlier this year that 2017 saw, according to the Anti-Defamation League, “the largest year-on-year increase since the Jewish civil rights group began collecting data in 1979” -- a staggering 57 percent surge!

Can you become a rabbi (female) if your mother is not Jewish?

You’re referring to a mohel, who circumcises newborn Jewish boys (if their caregivers want that).

Here are six things that seem to help me on my spiritual journey

The phrase “King of the Jews” is used in Christian literature, not Jewish.

If a child’s mother is Jewish, the vast majority of Jewish communities will accept that child as Jewish. If a child’s father is Jewish but the mother is not, then Reform and Reconstructionist congregations, and other Jewish progressive communities (Renewal, Humanistic, etc.), will accept the child as Jewish if he or she is being raised Jewish.