Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster reflects on the significance of the Song of Moses in Deuteronomy 32. On the Shabbat between Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) and Succot (Tabernacles ...

The name of Jewish food writer Jake Cohen’s new cookbook, “Dinner Party Animal,” is a particularly apt one: The 31-year-old celebrity chef — who lives on the Upper West Side with his famous pals, ...

For two thousand years, Mary—the mother of Jesus—has been honored in cathedrals, hymns, and paintings as the Virgin Mother of God. From Michelangelo’sPietàto the gilded mos ...

Yom Kippur, in its post-Temple form, feels to me to be the antidote for such certainty. Encapsulated in the Ten Days of contemplation and tshuva (roughly translated as ‘an attempt to return to the ...

The words of Cantor Moshe Ben Avraham, spoken on the eve of Yom Kippur as he cleared the rubble left by the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, echo in our hearts.

Surveys show that Jordan is one of the most antisemitic countries in the world. The teaching of antisemitism in Jordanian school textbooks helps explain why.

Month One: Tishrei – The Tribe of Ephraim Most of us live by the secular calendar. January to December, four seasons, twelve months. But in Jewish tradition, there’s another cycle quietly ticking ...

“Free Palestine – end the occupation” reads a flag displayed at a pro-Palestinian encampment erected Monday, May 6, 2024, at UC Davis. Some Jewish students at UCD feel the campus can be a hostile ...

This summer, Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy (HBHA) teacher Alexa Cohen embarked on a journey to Morocco as part of the Kivunim Fellowship for High School Teachers, a program designed to inspire educators ...

(JTA) — Sam Sussman’s debut novel, “Boy from the North Country,” revolves around a mystery: Was Bob Dylan, the singer and Nobel laureate, the narrator’s father? Sussman could have written this tale as ...

The Nazis seized tens of thousands of books from the Jewish Theological Seminary in Budapest, but the works are making their way back, including one being returned in New York this week. By Catherine ...