Why do films relating to Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan and Robert Oppenheimer barely mention their Jewishness? By Mireille Silcoff My father died two years ago, at the age of 81. But the grief only really ...

A man has broken a Guinness World Record after singing Christmas tunes for 42 hours straight – without losing his voice. Dave Purchase spent almost two days singing Christmas classics from Mariah ...

Carlos Gouvêa was arrested on Oct. 1 and released on $500 bail. Three charges were dismissed on Nov. 13 and he paid nearly $400 in restitution. After his arrest by ICE, he opted to self-deport. U.S.

Elinor Harrison received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Grammy Museum Foundation. She is affiliated with the International Association of ...

Carlos Portugal Gouvêa, a former visiting law professor at Harvard Law School, was arrested on Oct. 1 after firing a BB/pellet gun near the Temple Beth Zion during its late Kol Nidre service. Carlos ...

Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin, who earned an Oscar nomination for the “Sing Sing” screenplay, has boarded Ben Rekhi’s documentary short “The Breakthrough Group” as an executive producer. The film, ...

When I first heard Joe Buchanan’s country music, I assumed he was a Messianic Jew. “How good, how good,” he croons with a Texas drawl over a twangy guitar. “Yeah, God I love the house where you grow.” ...

(RNS) — Rabbi Arthur Waskow, an iconic social justice activist considered the forefather of postwar American Jewish progressivism, died Monday (Oct. 20), one week after celebrating his 92nd birthday.

WASHINGTON — The Maryland Legislative Jewish Caucus (MLJC), denounces the decision of the Student Government Association (SGA) at the University of Maryland to hold a vote on a resolution calling on ...

There was once a very poor man, a simple and pious Jew, in a shtetl somewhere in Ukraine, or maybe it was Poland. He could barely feed his family and all the doors in his house were broken. One night ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio - As dusk settled over the Shaker Lakes Nature Center on Wednesday evening, the quiet of the surrounding woods framed a gathering inside the center’s main building, where one ...

Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish faith, is being celebrated on Wednesday, Oct. 1. Yom Kippur is the day of atonement following the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah. It involves followers of the ...