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Israelis are displaced and still coping with the trauma brought by the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks one year later, as Jewish American life remains altered.

On the anti-Zionist left, the academic framing “settler colonialism” gained wide currency to describe and deride Zionism, ...

Be still” popped up this week on a social media post from a fellow minister who stated, “be still doesn’t mean be quiet.” ...

Virginia clergy on Friday called for peace during a contentious election season, with reminders of the seventh beatitude and ...

Inaugural summer session attracted a diverse group of students, who took a deep dive into the living tradition of ...

Today we will look at some of the words that came into our language through the church. The most usual route of these words ...

This pretty Hebrew girls' name translates to "oak tree." Alona comes from the root word elon and dates back centuries in ...

On one of his final tracks, Leonard Cohen's career-long contemplation of religion reaches a moving finale as he sings in Hebrew on 'You Want It Darker' ...

The shofar — from the Hebrew word for a ram’s horn, which is sounded at services on the Jewish High Holy Days, this year in October — is an alarm ...

Academic and administrative faculty members at Hebrew University sent a letter to ... All this was done without examining her words in depth and while making statements to the media that harmed ...

Stephen Curry, the basketball phenom, has his name tattooed in Hebrew on his left wrist; it’s unclear whether he knows that the same letters spell the Talmudic word for “accidental seminal ...