Isidor Straus, the Jewish businessman who co-founded Macy’s, drowned with his wife in the Titanic disaster. His gold pocket ...
That truth was once again on display Wednesday night (Nov. 19) at Manhattan’s Park East Synagogue, which was hosting a ...
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?
The synagogue, in Kadima-Tzoran in central Israel, opened for Shabbat services on Friday, but worshippers discovered the ...
Children in public schools come from all sorts of backgrounds—Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or nonreligious. Whose prayer would we use? Any sort of school prayer that is designed to offend no one is ...
In 1906, tens of thousands of Jewish parents in New York’s Lower East Side and Brooklyn kept their children home from school ...
Local Jewish and city leaders say celebrating Sigd publicly can fight antisemitism and showcase Jewish diversity.
Written in the ancient language of Ge‘ez on parchment, the Orit is the most important holy text of the Beta Israel community.
Physician, author and Fox News contributor shares personal stories of faith, including the healing of his deaf son Samuel and ...
In 1915, a Christian minister spoke at a Jewish funeral in Tupper Lake, New York. The synagogue is now celebrating its 120th anniversary.
Barak Sella was 10 years old when prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on the night of November 4, 1995. Thirty years later, Sella, an activist, educator, and community organizer, views that ...