When it comes to the Jewish community, does size really matter? It’s not a flip question. Many observers greet the high rates of intermarriage, low birthrates and widespread alienation from Jewish ...

When it comes to Jewish number-crunchers, Ira Sheskin is the maven from Miami. Thanks to his research, we now know everything from the percentage of Jews in Dade County, Fla., who have mezuzahs on ...

A new Canadian census that appears to show a significant decline in the number of Jews in Canada has experts divided over the significance of the figures. Statistics culled from Canada’s 2006 ...

(RNS) The Jewish piece of the American religious pie is not shrinking as the Christian slice is, according to a study from the Pew Research Center. Isn’t that good news for a people who—for the past ...

(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — While researching his family tree, Brian Madigan of Locust Grove, Virginia, found something strange: Although his maternal great-great-grandfather had lived in ...

Prior to the murder of 6 million Jews between 1939 and 1945, some 16,600,000 were spread throughout the world. Today’s data indicates that there are currently 14,511,000 Jews on Earth, a number ...

When members of the year-old Reform Communal Chevra Kadisha of New York complete their work preparing a Jewish body for burial, they take a few minutes to stand together around the closed coffin.

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – MARCH 20: Israeli medical worker holds a swab test for coronavirus at a drive-through site during a presntation for the press before opening on March 20, 2020 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

At the end of last month I was attending a press lunch near to the southern Israeli port city of Ashkelon. The occasion was part of a visit by some thirty environmental journalists from leading daily ...

(RNS) This year marks the anniversaries of four historical events that changed world history and continue to affect millions of people today. By coincidence, all four events took place in years that ...