A tambourine-lover with creative tactics meant to take congregants outside of their comfort zone, Rabbi RuthE Levy of Mountain Synagogue in Franklin doesn’t mess around when it comes to musical ...

The letter Mem alludes to water (mayim) - the first created substance: “God’s spirit moved over the water" (Gen. 1:2). This ...

God's personal name appears 6,823 times in Scripture. A new book explores what it means — and why it still matters ...

The third book of the Torah is commonly known in English as Leviticus. The name comes from Greek and simply means “pertaining to the Levites,” the priestly tribe responsible for ...

For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new generations of innovators in AI and language ...

President Donald Trump renewed threats against Iran as the nation suffers continued strikes by the U.S. and Israel on ...

Providence Mayor Brett Smiley and former U.S. Rep. David Cicilline are among 13 adults celebrating late-in-life bar and bat ...

The Israeli auteur on why 'Yes' is his most confrontational film yet, the soldier who gave him 10 more minutes and why he thinks America needs to see it.

A group of Jewish volunteers parachuted into occupied Europe with the goal of saving their co-religionists and fighting the Nazis.

I’m sitting at the dining room table doing my Spanish homework while my mother sits across from me, tackling a daunting task: studying for her bat mitzvah. This scene is part of our weekly routine in ...

La., defended the role of religion in public life during comments March 19 at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington.

Historians say the man we call Jesus was actually known as Yeshua in first-century Judea. So how did that name transform over ...