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NEW YORK – What was originally billed as a healing service became a memorial service Sunday night at the Manhattan Jewish Community Center, as…

On Hoshana Raba, Dudu Fisher and new rising star Colin Shachat performed at the Jerusalem Theater. The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra was under the…

‘The hidden things belong to God alone; those revealed are ours forever.’ One of my favorite quotes from our holy Torah, that one is, and I’ll tell…

AMERICA IS widely recognized as the public relations capital of the world, but what works there does not necessarily enjoy the same success abroad.…

THIS MAY come as a surprise to most people, but South Korean Ambassador Young-Sam Ma was rooting for North Korea in the World Cup soccer…

Marking the start of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day before a crowd of hundreds that gathered in the Warsaw Ghetto Square at Yad Vashem…

PresidentShimon Peres addressed the Irianian threat in his speech at theHolocaust Memorial Day ceremony at Yad Vashem on Sunday, stressing thatthe…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech at theHolocaust Memorial Day ceremony at Yad Vashem on Sunday focused on the rising Iranian threat, a…

Does being religious enhance literary skills? The Education Ministry on Tuesday released the breakdown of the latest results of matriculation exams…

According to Colin Shachat, we may have entered a new golden age of cantorial music. And 48-year-old South African-born Shachat should know. Besides…

All day long at the large modern home on Rehov Kadima in Ramot, the front door stands wide open. It’s not that someone forgot to close it – it’s…

At around 6:00 p.m. on the 30th of September, 2002, a unit of the IDF’s Nahal Brigade was fired upon by Palestinian gunmen while patrolling the West…

Jewish Sages of TodayEdited by Aryeh Rubin | Devora | 264 pages | $16.95If all the people whose biographies appear in Jewish Sages of Today: Profiles…

For Dr. Michel Rothe, documenting Jewish sites in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France is his life's mission. Rothe's latest endeavor is a hazzanut…

Cantor Sharon Bernstein sits down at the electric piano in a room filled with Jewish academics and Yiddish linguists, and launches into an early…

It might sound anachronistic but the Masorti (Conservative) Movement has decided to revive a kibbutz in the Galilee once near demise. Socialist…

I didn't know much about Limmud FSU. About Matthew Bronfman I knew a bit more. I knew he was involved with Israeli banks. Banks annoy me. And I…

IN ORTHODOX circles, the nameYitzhak Meir Helfgot is as iconic as that of any great opera singer or pop star in the secular world. A Ger Hassid with…

Jews, God and Videotape: Religion and Media in AmericaBy Jeffrey ShandlerNYU Press341 pp. $23 (paper)$75 (cloth)American adults spend an average of…

FOR YEARS now, the Hebrew tabloids have almost unfailingly dug dirt up on the Netanyahu family with regard to anything that might be remotely…