The shape of the menorah – and of the hanukkiah – teaches us that while we all may be diverse branches, we derive from a ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each parent’s and child’s personality, needs, and circumstance vary so widely.

Hallmark keeps getting Hanukkah wrong. Two Forward writers pitch one that understands Judaism — and why it resists being Christmas-adjacent.

“Nuremberg” tells the story of the famous Nuremberg trials of Nazi officials through the eyes of Major Kelley, the ...

The victory in war and the dedication of the altar are one and the same. And today we have been privileged to see both.

Hanukkah’s story hides a complex past involving power. For converts, the holiday forces questions about how Judaism receives ...

Deep in a dark tunnel under Gaza two years ago, a group of six Israeli hostages lit Hanukkah candles and sang the holiday ...

The oil lasting then isn’t a simple metaphor such as the Jewish people never gave out the entire time, or inspired poetic symbolism that the fire inside needed to keep fighting remained burning. Maybe ...

There has been darkness before. There will be darkness again. Do not turn on your neighbour, do not blame the innocent.

After the mass murder in Sydney, Nerdeen Kiswani, a New Yorker and the founder of Within Our Lifetime, wrote the following on ...

Flódni is a richly flavored, layered cake, iconic in Jewish cuisine, especially in Hungary and Central Europe. It sweetens ...

There has been darkness before. There will be darkness again. Do not turn on your neighbour, do not blame the innocent.