“Zionist” and “Zionism” should continue to be used to refer to the movement that predated the establishment of Israel in 1948 ...

A professor of religious studies explores how the pig became the ultimate Jewish taboo — and an inadvertent marker of Jewish ...

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Hebrew is not merely another language. It’s the heartbeat of our culture, our connection to Israel, and our link to a shared ...

The Irish, who gained their independence almost three decades before Israel, have singularly failed to revive their native ...

Writer and editor Samuel D. James argues today, though, that while using technology to control so many facets of our daily ...

More than 200,000 Jews lived in the area of modern Lithuania in 1918, when the Russian Empire collapsed and the independent ...

Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the second set of Tablets ( the 10 Commandments ), indicating that God had forgiven the ...

If Daniel Schloff’s family had been on time to Yom Kippur morning services in 1965, he may have never encountered Sandy ...

Rumors abound about Satanism. Its adherents are often portrayed as evil, bloodthirsty deviants in popular culture. But that's ...

Considered the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur is the culmination of a 10-day period of repentance and ...

The siddur itself was Sephardi for all intents and purposes, but its subheading – “according to the minhag of the holy community of Sefardim of the Ma’arav and the Mizrach” – hinted at Rabbi ...