Take a look at some popular funeral foods from across the globe, learn a bit about how they're prepared, and why they're ...

One of the names of Rosh Hashanah is Yom Hazikaron, the days of memory. Indeed, for Jews the key to redemption is always ...

Hundreds of ultranationalist Israelis stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday, coinciding with Rosh ...

As Israelis celebrate the New Year with family and ritual, Palestinians in Gaza City face relentless bombing, impossible choices and the fear that leaving home means never to return ...

There is, then, a larger lesson in this story, as in many other biblical stories, about imperfect leaders and God’s work ...

The professor at Tel Aviv University warns that years of underinvestment, especially in education, and the rising influence ...

The Israeli project to divide the West Bank dates back to the 1990s, but no government had dared to approve it due to ...

Decimated by pogroms, the Holocaust and years of Soviet rule, the small but tenacious community is coping with antisemitism, poverty and an influx of refugees from neighboring Ukraine ...

Pivoting, or changing direction, even by just a few degrees, can have an enormous impact on our future trajectory. Just as a ...

Tonight at sundown, Jews around the world begin the annual observance of a new year on the lunar Hebrew calendar, a period of ...

Righteous Commentary It is written, I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning .

Researchers point to “intonation units,” or IUs, as the hidden scaffolding of human conversation. These are stretches of ...