The Talmud is the consummate repository of contention and disagreement. Walk into any Kollel today and all one sees are a ...

What the words of ancient rabbis could and couldn’t teach me.

The reason the book carries this range of approbations is because it cuts across typical boundaries, blending traditional approaches to the development of the Oral Torah or Torah she-baal peh with up- ...

Judaism's holiest prayer site in the Old City of Jerusalem, July 10, 2024. (Credit: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90) At the ceremony, the final letters of the Torah will be inscribed by former hostages ...

Writer Miriam Handel argues that Netflix's "Nobody Wants This" goes too far in its critical stereotypes of Jewish women.

The morning after Oct. 7, Andrew Lapin was back on the job. Back where he has been, trying to make sense of an increasingly ...

Donald Trump visited a historic Jewish site Monday to mark one year since Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack on Israel. The ...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer and Jaclyn Rothenberg, the spokeswoman for ...

Brandon Rattiner, the director of the Jewish Community Relations Council at JewishColorado, said the entire Jewish community ...

The holiday marks the beginning of the Jewish High Holy Days and leads up to Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement.

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Rosh Hashanah is one of Judaism's holiest days and begins at sunset on Wednesday. Here's what to know about the Jewish new ...