The local Jewish community honored U.S. Sen. John Fetterman for his support of Israel and opposition to antisemitism during a ...

In how we build our house, at G-d’s command, we set aside our doorpost on which we affix a mezuzah. In summary, every Jewish eccentricity, every Jewish deviation from mundane human behaviour ...

14) that DNA analysis has revealed that Columbus was a Sephardic Jew. Rumors of this have been floating around the Jewish world for a long time — long enough for us to wonder: Is it true?

A recent book on Jewish identity before and after Zionism shows the limitations of a progressive critique that doesn’t truly account for the experience of Palestinians. German Jewish refugees ...

Sirens sounded into the night on Friday in northern Israel as many Israelis began observing Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, one of the holiest days in the Jewish calendar. The Israeli military ...

Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year in Judaism and follows Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The name of the holiday translates from Hebrew to English as the Day of Atonement, and Jewish ...

She is also the person who encouraged me to lean into my Jewish faith. When we first moved into this residence, we affixed a mezuzah on the doorpost with our family present. Now, as we prepare to ...

Shlachter knew of only a few Jewish families, like his, that owned a second home in Bolinas ... When they moved in, Ruggiero placed a mezuzah on every doorpost. Beyond cherishing the natural beauty ...

Last week marked the beginning of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, the first of Judaism’s high holy days, with Yom Kippur coming this week. But Monday marks the anniversary of a tragedy ...

In time for the Jewish New Year 5785, the Jewish Agency announced on Wednesday that the entire world’s population of Jewry increased by 100,000 over the last year. The Jewish population ...

I didn’t know the term until I married one. Even though my family is 100 percent Jewish and my brother took a DNA test to prove it, up to that point, I had heard only the female equivalent of ...

Hence the tradition by which we count the Jewish calendar with Rosh Hashanah ... from the lamb offering to putting blood on one’s doorpost. What did ancient, pre-Talmudic sources have to ...