Sukkot, the Jewish holiday celebrating the traditional gathering of the harvest, has begun. It began at sundown Monday, Oct.

To mark the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, the Jewish Insider team asked leading thinkers and practitioners to reflect on how that day has changed the world. Here, we look at how ...

American Jews prepared to celebrate one of their faith's most joyous holidays after the release of 20 Israeli hostages.

American Jewry is reeling following the sudden death of Rabbi Moshe Hauer, the executive vice president of the Orthodox Union ...

The haftarah for Yom Kippur begins with these action-filled words of Isaiah. We must act – we must cut the road through – it is up to us to clear the way for ami – My people – God’s people.

The White House says President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner will be part of the U.S. team at those talks which begin Monday in Egypt.

Now that twenty hostages have been returned to Israel, for the first time in two long years Israelis and Jews everywhere can ...

(The Conversation) — Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the early modern world. (The Conversation) — Every few years ...

The Torah begins not with law or lineage but with wonder. “Bereishit bara Elohim.” It’s usually translated as, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Past tense. A past event. A ...

There were an estimated 16.6 million Jews alive in 1939 before the Holocaust killed more than 6 million of them. By comparison, there are about 14.8 million Jews alive today, according to the Pew ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X After 15 years, conductor Yuriy Bekker still manages to find new voices for “A World of Jewish ...