(RNS) — In a barnburner Yom Kippur sermon Monday (Sept. 25), Rabbi Sharon Brous said elements of Israel’s new government have a messianic agenda that aims to turn the country into a fascist theocracy.

Messianic Jewish movement, which has congregations in more than 25 countries. Of the estimated 8.2 million Jews in the United States, about 14 percent, or 1.2 million, are Messianic. A prominent ...

Jewish groups are speaking out against Vice President Mike Pence's appearance at a rally Oct. 29 in Michigan with Loren Jacobs, a defrocked clergyman in the Messianic Jewish movement. The Jewish ...

The Israel-Hamas conflict has launched an armada of bad takes. Jonathan Cahn — an influential “messianic rabbi” who once prayed over Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago — is late to the party, but has uncorked ...

A ’rabbi’ joined Mike Pence on stage during a rally in Michigan on Monday night to pray for the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. But his prayer left some angry. Rabbi Loren Jacobs, who ...

The controversial “Messianic rabbi” who joined Vice President Mike Pence to honor victims of the massacre in Pittsburgh during a Michigan rally was reportedly kicked out of his congregation for libel ...

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I didn't really intend to return to the controversy over the "Messianic rabbi" who appeared alongside Vice President Mike Pence this week, but NBC News reported on some additional details that seemed ...

In the summer of 2003, I was a chaplain candidate in the U.S. Navy, training to serve the religious needs of the Navy’s fighting men and women. There were about 40 of us in my Chaplains School class, ...