This report investigates disparities between non-Orthodox Jewish men and women with respect to Jewish religious and communal engagement. The study draws on survey data from five different sources ...

A forgotten folk ritual, widespread in Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, saw residents assemble on the Shabbat before Passover outside the doors of men afflicted with fungal infections of the ...

A new exhibit at the History Museum on the Square in Springfield, Missouri, explores the history of Jewish people in the Ozarks. The exhibit, "Creating Community: Jews of Springfield," features ritual ...

For most of her life, Peruvian-born Yvette Merzbacher wondered where her four paternal great-grandparents were buried. All she knew was that her grandparents came from Bessarabia, and that her ...

David M. K. Sheinin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

Immediately after Oct. 7, a growing number of Jewish college students felt a connection to their Jewish identity and sought out Jewish events on campus. But the feeling didn’t last for everyone.

It wasn’t always easy, but look what they created: a thriving Jewish community in the heart of South Florida. Historians mark the beginning of Jewish life in Boca Raton to the 1920s, with an ...

A corporate executive who specialized in mergers, he brought together five Jewish institutions and their collections at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. By Richard Sandomir Bruce Slovin, a ...