Queen Esther' is a literary riffing on a biblical story. It also might be the most sympathetic treatment of Jewish themes by ...

It’s called ‘Va-Yechi’: And Jacob lived ….’. For, although it is about death, it’s also about life. Jacob lived until the age ...

Clip disseminated widely online by anti-Israel activists appears to show Golani troop opening fire along border fence; IDF: ...

Handwritten calendars, prayer books, and testimonies at Yad Vashem show how Jewish life and tradition endured during the ...

Lillian Carson Lillian Carson, born Lillian Adele Gershenson on March 22, 1933, had a remarkable life and death. She died at home, at age 92 on Nov. 12, ...

As I sit and study looking at the falling snow, I realize that each figure in Bereshit, which we will finish reading this coming Shabbat, is a bridge; each figure is a link in the destined chain. As ...

A childhood photo taken during the holidays decades ago has resurfaced, showing one of the most influential figures in the ...

Adah: The wife of Esau, and the second woman mentioned in the Bible, after Eve. Julia: The name of a young Christian woman ...

A teen leader of a high school cultural club discovers how food, language and tradition can connect communities.

When I went to Jewish People’s and Peretz Schools, and Bialik High School, there were two Hindu kids in our midst. Sujata Tyagi Dayal and her younger brother, Harish, were the only two non-Jewish kids ...