The plaintiffs say the policy to lower the casket only after mourners' leave has been discriminatorily enforced against Jewish mourners.

Angry residents reportedly set fire to an Ebola treatment center in eastern Congo during a clash over retrieving the body of ...

While their ancestors may have been forced to hide or abandon their Judaism following the Alhambra Decree of 1492, these Bnei Anusim are returning to their Jewish roots ...

There's something quietly remarkable about the idea that an entire culture's way of handling death can be traced back to a ...

Most people who describe themselves as people of faith can rattle off the major commandments without much trouble. Don’t kill ...

Dear Eric: My older brother and I were born and raised in a Jewish household. My brother’s first wife was Jewish, his second is not. At a recent dinner with my brother and his wife, she informed us of ...

Long before Alaska had synagogues or an organized Jewish community, a small cemetery in Fairbanks preserved traces of ...

Dear Eric: My older brother and I were born and raised in a Jewish household. My brother’s first wife was Jewish, his second is not. At a recent dinner with my brother and his wife, she informed us of ...

(RNS) — Vanessa Bloom recalls her rabbi gently reminding her that she still had time to walk away. But she felt compelled toward the Jewish faith. “I knew my fate was already tied to the Jewish people ...

On a spring weekend in Boise, Idaho, more than 100 people gathered at Ember Maucere’s home for a three-day party filled with live music, dancing, food and art. They weren’t there for a wedding or ...

Jared Kushner, former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and trusted adviser, opens up in a forthcoming memoir about his wife Ivanka Trump’s conversion in the late 2000s, his Shabbat observance, ...