Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape from destruction recorded in the Book of Esther. Haman, an early Hitler in ...

The holiday, also spelled Rosh Hashanah, marks the beginning of the Jewish High Holy Days and leads up to Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement.

On Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, in 1985, Jewish friends invited me to join a prayer/protest against the launching of a Trident submarine. Wearing prayer shawls and yarmulkes we knelt ...

Image: Jewish Florida Death row survivor Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs, Z’L, right, with Abe Bonowitz, left, co-founder of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty.” Source: Abe Bonowitz.

The ritual may seem irrational, but it's actually an example of Judaism at its best because it invites us to reenact the past ...

In a dramatic escalation, the United States launched Operation Midnight Hammer, targeting key Iranian nuclear sites under ...

Whether at Christmas or the Fourth of July, these Christian nationalist-themed services are nothing new, Rick Pidcock says.

Exodus 28:1 And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may ...

As Tuesday marks the 613th day in captivity for the hostages in Gaza, the families of the hostages are making a call for a “day of good deeds.” Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, whose 23 ...

After a 4-year-old girl was killed in a traffic accident yesterday, one eulogy at her funeral called her death 'an atonement ...

Levenson Korn looks back on her time in the public school classroom fondly, but she said that for her own children, the plan was always a Jewish education. She and her husband attended Jewish day ...