If elected in November, Mamdani would become the first Muslim and South Asian mayor of New York City. There are currently ...

The Church is to gather all Gentiles to God to follow him. Then, at some point soon, God will hit “unpause” on his plans with ...

Why is there a Jewish practice to bury prayer books and other texts that contain God's name? A rabbi offers the mystical answer.

Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?

In 2023, a branch of the Palestinian restaurant Ayat opened in Brooklyn’s Ditmas Park, not far from where I live. The eatery trumpets its politics; the seafood section on the menu is headed “From the ...

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee called efforts to deny Jewish ties to the Holy Land is "absurd" and urged historical revisionists to "follow the science" of archaeology.

Shavuot (pronounced Shah-voo-OTE), Hebrew for “weeks,” has been observed since biblical times. It marks the passing of seven ...

Erev Shavuot, Salonika, 1533. Two young Sephardic rabbinic luminaries – Rav Yosef Karo and Rav Shlomo Alkabetz – got together for Tikkun Leil Shavuot, the all night Torah study custom first ...

To enter into this textual garden is to live as people of the book, the enduring and core foundation of Judaism. Sidra Kranz Moshinsky is an educator and freelance writer. Save ...

Each year, 163 days after Passover, the Jewish community celebrates Rosh Hashanah, which marks the beginning of the High Holy Days leading up to Yom Kippur. The two-day celebration began this year ...

He has taught history and Judaism Studies and introduced a new elective at his school in Melbourne on Aboriginal Studies. In recent years, he has worked with youth groups in Jerusalem, bringing Jewish ...

On October 7, 2023, the world witnessed a day of Jewish slaughter unsurpassed since the Holocaust. Hamas terrorists in Gaza crossed the border to invade Israeli communities and went on a murder spree.