In 1915, a Christian minister spoke at a Jewish funeral in Tupper Lake, New York. The synagogue is now celebrating its 120th anniversary.
Written in the ancient language of Ge‘ez on parchment, the Orit is the most important holy text of the Beta Israel community.
That truth was once again on display Wednesday night (Nov. 19) at Manhattan’s Park East Synagogue, which was hosting a ...
In 1906, tens of thousands of Jewish parents in New York’s Lower East Side and Brooklyn kept their children home from school ...
Housed for centuries in the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat, Old Cairo, the Cairo Genizah contains more than 300,000 handwritten ...
The trend is clearly visible in our local elections. The Republicans didn’t perform so well in our local elections, did they?
Ancient Jews held large communal meals, inviting friends, relatives and perhaps even strangers to fulfill the thank offering.
The Psalms in Medieval Art and Life” is on display through Jan. 4, 2026, at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York.
Local Jewish and city leaders say celebrating Sigd publicly can fight antisemitism and showcase Jewish diversity.
One hundred and twenty years ago this month, a celebration was held at New York’s Carnegie Hall on Thanksgiving Day, ...
The Biblical Book of Esther tells us to celebrate the defeat of Haman and his Jew hating followers: “…celebrate annually the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar as a time when Jews got ...