The Jewish holiday of Purim, celebrated March 13-14, is considered holier than Yom Kippur, yet it’s a story of survival where ...

Hours before Shabbos, Rabbi Shmuel and Shternie Freedman, along with their four children, were loaded onto a truck as they ...

The establishment of a cemetery is a foremost priority, thereby reflecting Jewish identity and belonging to the Jewish ...

Light shines brightly into the bare first-floor room of 113 Redchurch Street in Spitalfields, east London. "You'd have had ...

Giving someone tefillin isn’t just handing them an object,” she told JNS. “It helps open up a whole world to them.” ...

This week in Central Virginia, see clockmaker Allan Young's upcycled works at C'ville Arts and the Women's History Month show ...

Hundreds of white-shirted teenagers and young men packed the room, hugging the lecterns where their leather-bound Talmudic volumes lay open ... structure where the Torah scroll is housed, the ...

Delegation of American Jews visits Damascus for first time since Assad regime's fall, finding hospitality but Jewish sites in disrepair ...

Studies show reading boosts brain function, reduces stress, promotes better sleep, and enhances empathy. Social media and TV erode all those things.

They had managed to get the Torah scroll out on the first day ... “Long ago, it was a cave and, as a cave, should be open to everybody because it’s a holy place to everyone,” said ...

In the months after the December attack that devastated Melbourne's Jewish community, the synagogue's congregation has ...