A painful feud over Touro Synagogue has left Newport's Jewish community divided, with two rival congregations holding ...

The Tradition Rooted in Modesty and Spiritual Practice In many Orthodox Jewish communities, married women cover their hair as ...

Adam S. Ferziger talks to JNS about his new book, "Agents of Change."The post How American immigrants contributed to a new ...

As DNA tests become more common, people who "feel" Jewish are discovering hidden ancestry and converting through American ...

So it’s a fitting theme for the first exhibit in the Museum at Eldridge Street’s new initiative, “Opening Doors to ...

On "Yom Haplitim," the National Library of Israel hosted an event titled, "Sephardi Voices: The Other Refugees."The post ...

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Colombia says it sent 26 members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect Lev Tahor to the United States after determining that the ...

A civilized society has a responsibility to protect and honor all such mourners, while also upholding the fundamental human ...

Friends who aren’t Jewish often tell me how fascinating it is that Chanukah’s eight nights shift each year, while their own ...

When we first meet Marcelo in the fiction film The Secret Agent, the only thing that’s clear is that he’s on the run — we’re ...

A crowd of women and men fell completely silent for a minute at noon on Friday at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg to honour the 15 women killed every day in South Africa. This was part of a ...