The Holocaust Torah is on what the Memorial Scrolls Trust calls a "permanent loan." That means it will remain at Temple Or ...

The phrase first appears in the Aleinu prayer, composed around the 3rd century CE in Babylonia: “לתקן עולם במלכות שדי” ...

Two newly ordained Renewal rabbis from Oakland are bolstering the movement’s 50-year-old legacy in the East Bay.

But after attending a service at B’nai Jeshurun, she cried “because my soul had been awakened in this space. I said to David ...

As Rabbi Yusuf Hamra and his son Henry were visiting Damascus this week for the first ...

Archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem just concluded their second season of excavations at Hyrcania, where they found colorful Byzantine mosaics and Herodian frescoes ...

Jewish chronologists believe the Pharaoh who enslaved the Israelites was Thutmose III, who ruled from around 1479 BCE to 1445 BCE.

The “Pachinko” author recommends four novels that present character studies of bold women making their way in changing times.

In addition to the loss of its Jewish citizens, forensic accounting work reveals that assets, institutions and property seized from Jews in Iraq total over $34 billion by today ’ s valuation.

Since the late 1970s, the future of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank has been the country’s most divisive debate. Yet ...

The custom of including the Ten Commandments as part of the Shema was once widespread, but from a certain point in time it was systematically opposed by the Sages. Why did they object to it?

The original poorhouse and hospital site was later used to build Alexander Goode Elementary School, named after a York rabbi ...