At the centre of the shul (synagogue) is the holy ark. Over the front of the ark is a curtain. Open the curtains and there ...

The year was 1975. It had been 200 years since the nation's founding and more than a century since the end of the Civil War.

Rumors spread that the Israeli far-right politician might not be coming at all. And then, at 11:28 p.m., a black motorcade pulled up.

Shabbat tradition of late-night stew, the far-right Israeli minister encounters none of the simmering tension that greeted ...

MITZVAH POWER ACADEMY empowers young children to take the lead doing mitzvot, good deeds, at home, in school, synagogue and ...

The new dairy kitchen and growing meals program is part of TLC’s larger vision of comprehensive community support; The center ...

My favorite place is Nagar Idan (“Idan carpentry”) where, right before Passover, I took the top of the table I had found to ...

New York, among other cities around the globe, has been the epicenter of virtuosic cantorial performance of Jewish liturgy ...

Soviet repression caused most Georgian Jews to flee, leaving behind a 2,500-year-old history whose memory is beginning to ...

The centuries-old seder plates photographed by Theodor Harburger in the 1920s may be the only remnants we have of many Jewish families from Bavaria.The post The lost seder plates: A ...

In his March email, Reuben Wagenheim described a series of mundane communal events: face-painting for children, visiting rabbis, marriages, and the impressive synagogue choirs. ‘What a pleasure to ...

The court ruled a New York congregation can evict Congregation Jeshuat Israel, which has worshiped at Touro Synagogue for more than a century NEWPORT, R.I. — The Rhode Island Supreme Court has ...