Shavuot, by all reason, should be the pinnacle of Jewish holidays. After all, this was the cataclysmic “day the Earth stood ...

Tonight is Erev Shavuot. The holiday celebrates the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai as well as the grain harvest for the ...

The community in the historic city of Isfahan held a mass gathering at the Keter David synagogue on Thursday, on the eve of ...

At the Jaipur Literature Festival, the author, who was among the 428 activists on the Gaza aid flotilla detained and ...

One by one, militants who videotaped their exploits have been identified and killed, in a measure of Israel’s surveillance ...

The GRAMMY Award-winning band on closing their album trilogy, changing tides of the touring industry, and the ancestry of New ...

Israel is carrying out a massive intelligence-led operation to track down and eliminate Hamas militants linked to the October ...

The bigger picture excluded by their tunnel vision is that the first exile of Jews from their homeland in Judah happened in ...

Once envisioned as the city's commercial hub, the historic site is now seen as a confusing maze of empty storefronts, urban ...

(RNS) — The festival commemorates when God gave the Torah, and with it, both spiritual freedom and responsibility, to the Israelites on Mount Sinai, a pivotal moment in the Jewish story. Many converts ...

May the survivors continue their healing path, and may Karen Diamond’s memory continue to be for a blessing. In September, we ...

It is a commandment to place an eruv tavshilin on the eve of the festival • This permits cooking and baking for the Sabbath ...