The world’s first Holocaust museum, the Ghetto Fighters’ House in Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta’ot, reopened its doors to visitors ...

Karen Mozenter, CEO of Jewish Family Services in Columbus, has been named a member of YWCA Columbus’ 2025 class of its Women ...

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Chanukah is not the Jewish Christmas. Nor does it merely celebrate a reported miracle of oil sufficient for only one day that lasted instead for eight. Chanukah commemorates a defeat by the Jews of a ...

What does it mean for Israel to be a Jewish country? Does it simply mean the population is primarily Jewish? I think it means ...

The event in Medford, Mass., “endangers community safety under the guise of cultural programming,” local artist Elliot Jokelson told JNS.

Would you believe that it took a whole year for Chanukah to be recognized as a bona fide Jewish festival? But it’s true. Here’s a quote straight out of the Talmud in Shabbos (21a). After telling the ...

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“Hamas has engaged in talks with the other factions holding the hostages, but due to the situation in Gaza, it is impossible to contact all the organizations. Hamas has confirmed that it will provide ...

"After the Temple’s destruction, the menorah image became an important icon in the Jewish collective memory both within Israel and in the Diaspora." ...

Israel's budget crisis was resolved after coalition leadership in an unprecedented step authorized the justice minister to initiate the process of dismissing the attorney general.

He ordered the Torah defiled with the blood of pigs and commanded “that the lamp, which they call undying and which burns continually in the temple, should be extinguished.” At the climax of the ...