An obscure Babylonian document from the world famous Dead Sea Scroll collection was almost certainly a precursor to the Jewish calendar according to University of Manchester research. An obscure ...

In how we build our house, at G-d’s command, we set aside our doorpost on which we affix a mezuzah. In summary, every Jewish eccentricity, every Jewish deviation from mundane human behaviour ...

More than 1,000 sign letter protesting boycott of Jewish authors (JNS) More than 1,000 high-profile individuals from the literary and entertainment worlds have signed a letter condemning calls ...

The local Jewish community honored U.S. Sen. John Fetterman for his support of Israel and opposition to antisemitism during a ...

14) that DNA analysis has revealed that Columbus was a Sephardic Jew. Rumors of this have been floating around the Jewish world for a long time — long enough for us to wonder: Is it true?

Sherrie was told to take her mezuzah (Jewish doorpost prayer) down. "Might as well paint your door with lamb's blood," she was told. "I was threatened to be killed on the street," Harry said.

Installation at Western Wall with Torah scroll written in memory of the Oct. 7 massacre victims and those killed in the war that has followed. Thousands of people participated Monday night in a ...

I didn’t know the term until I married one. Even though my family is 100 percent Jewish and my brother took a DNA test to prove it, up to that point, I had heard only the female equivalent of ...

The Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education (MCSJE) is a research center dedicated to advancing the field of Jewish educational scholarship through expansive research on teaching and learning ...

In time for the Jewish New Year 5785, the Jewish Agency announced on Wednesday that the entire world’s population of Jewry increased by 100,000 over the last year. The Jewish population ...

Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year in Judaism and follows Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The name of the holiday translates from Hebrew to English as the Day of Atonement, and Jewish ...