HOUSTON – Condolences are pouring in for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who spent more than a quarter of a century on the bench of the nation’s highest court. Honored as a feminist icon, a ...

Long ago, before the first Noel, a Jewish carpenter named Joseph was famous for being right. The Bible introduced him as “a ...

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I owe no little of my past success to the fact that when I was a young doctor in Leeds, I was able to rescue from the jaws of death the oldest Cohen in the Jewish Community of Leeds. Prayers were ...

One of my favorite High Holidays prayers is the U-v’khein, several paragraphs added to the Amidah, especially for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The Amidah, said while standing (Amidah means standing ...

(JTA) — Within hours of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death on Friday evening, an obscure Jewish tradition began circulating online: Someone who dies on or just before Rosh Hashanah is a righteous person. “A ...

The world learned of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death as Rosh Hashanah began – a holy time for Jews that has brought both comfort and special meaning to her death for some of her supporters. Rosh Hashanah ...

The praise accorded to Noah is unparalleled in Tanach. He was, says the Torah, “a righteous man, perfect in his generations; Noah walked with G-d.” No such praise is given to Abraham or Moses or any ...

We live in a world that is often too cruel and unkind. Living in Israel for the last 30 years, I have attended too many funerals for those whose lives were taken ...

We went to see October 8th last night, a documentary that has now created waves across the USA with its accounts and footage of the explosion of hate and manipulated narratives following the events of ...