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Have you ever wondered what the longest verse is in the Bible? It is Esther 8:9. Follow along as we unpack the details of ...

The B'nei Menashe community traces its origins to the Chin, Kuki and Mizo tribes, a small group from Manipur and Mizoram.

ZAKA has announced “Galeed,” a spatial computing and augmented reality exhibit that commemorates the tragic events of October ...

Zionism is a political movement that started in Europe in the late 19th century for the liberation and self-determination of ...

Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.

I travelled to Israel to try and work out what October 7 had meant as the first anniversary approached. The massacres ...

October 7 shattered Israelis' belief that the state will protect them and eroded Diaspora Jewry's assumption of unconditional ...

Hundreds of Wordle puzzles have passed since the game was first unleashed onto the world, and there's now a burgeoning repository of words that now cannot be used for any future Wordle puzzles. If you ...

On the first anniversary of the October 7 massacre, residents of the 'Gaza envelope' mourn their dead while pledging to ...

At Yale, the Oct. 7 attacks set in motion a year of large campus protests responding to Israel’s retaliatory war in Gaza, ...

Bonnie Pomper, whose nephew Hersh Goldberg-Polin was executed by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, told JNS that studying the Mishnah made her appreciate “mundane” prayers she has said by “rote.” ...