Even atheists can enjoy these secular Yiddish poems and their English translations, related to the Torah reading.

One of the signs of the End of Days is the arrival and defeat of Gog and Magog (Ya’juj and Ma’juj or Ajuj and Majuj). Gog and Magog appear in the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Bible, and the Islamic ...

The Talmud, along with generations of scholars since, have made the remarkable point that the Torah and the Bible are ...

Explore Thessaloniki's rich history, including its Holocaust memorial honoring the city's Jewish population and Armenian ...

I’M sitting in my embassy office, looking at the beautiful green view of BGC from my window and the Laguna Bay on the horizon, and thinking about how I can share what Oct. 7 means to me with the ...

Christian Zionists proclamation of unconditional love for Israel feels hollow in the Middle East. The General Secretary for ...

Marilynne Robinson, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and recipient of a National Humanities Medal, is one of the world’s great ...

The community rebounded in 1991 after the breakup of the USSR, when 40,000 Armenians — the third wave of immigrants — relocated to Greece, most of them settling in Athens. Yet unlike any other major ...

Man who threatened Jewish families sentenced after trying to illegally buy guns for 'God's wrath' Hassan Chokr had pleaded guilty to illegal possession of multiple firearms on May 28, after originally ...

Two 18-year-old Syracuse University students have been charged with hate crimes following a disturbing incident during Rosh Hashanah at the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity house, a historically Jewish ...

JTA — Like many Jewish mothers, Daniella Levine Cava may be expecting tensions over Israel at the Rosh Hashanah table. But for her, the personal truly is political: Levine Cava is the mayor of ...

Despite a year full of distance, imperfections, disappointment, perhaps even betrayal of our very nature, on Yom Kippur we are all doves, possessing the ability to, in the end, return home.