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Two students at Syracuse University in New York are being charged with hate crimes after being accused of tossing a bag of pork into a Jewish fraternity home during a celebration for the Jewish ...

On stage last Sunday at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the comedian Alex Edelman told a Jewish joke that he said he once read in an academic journal. It essentially goes like this: A man goes to ...

Families gathered to pick apples at Baugher’s Orchards and Farm in Westminster on Sunday morning to celebrate in advance of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, which begins Monday at sundown and ends ...

Harvard is on track to add three tenured professors to its ranks in Jewish Studies to address a series of retirements and faculty vacancies that threatened the program’s future. Of the University’s 10 ...

During the Jewish High Holy Days, clergy take the pulpit before community members who yearn for a narrative to explain these complicated times. This year, we will hear and see one theme at the fore: ...

The political and cultural tumults of today call to mind the words of the great Jewish intellectual Milton Himmelfarb in 1967. In the immediate aftermath of the Six-Day War—when the Jewish people ...

At the Grolier Club, 'Jewish Worlds Illuminated' highlights of a vast collection from the Jewish Theological Seminary's ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. 72% of American Jews believe that Trump is using antisemitism as an “excuse” to “penalize and tax college campuses ...

The decade since I started at the Forward, as an intern on the culture desk in September 2015, has been full of change — for the Forward, and for me. I was such a wet-behind-the-ears journalist that ...

Jewish communities across central Illinois will soon gather at synagogues or special services to mark the start of the High Holy Days. Rosh Hashanah begins the Days of Awe, which are 10 days of ...

The Queen Street Playhouse is premiering a new documentary chronicling the Holy City's little-remembered role in Jewish history in America. But with a visual twist. "This Happy Land," written, ...