Judaism
Secular Manhattan private school holds annual Shabbat gathering post-October 7
At the Town School, officials and parents say, the entire school community has embraced the Shabbat celebrations alongside the other special events held to honor students’ traditions.
Zionism is not collapsing - it is paying the price of long neglect - opinion
Ghetto Fighters’ House: World's first Holocaust museum keeping memory, message alive
Jerusalem highlights: January 23-29
From burden to bridge: How Jewish music is reopening Germany’s cultural soul
Across Germany, Jewish music becomes a living answer to Holocaust memory and post–Oct. 7 antisemitism, one concert at a time.
'Disasters of Biblical Proportions': From ancient Exodus to lessons in fear and faith - review
The book Disasters of Biblical Proportions: The Ten Plagues Then, Now, and at the End of the World provides a history of the interpretations of each of the 10 plagues in the Book of Exodus.
Irving Berlin’s 1926 interfaith marriage sparked a Jewish debate that still hasn’t gone - opinion
For more than a century, interfaith marriage has functioned as a kind of Rorschach test within American Jewish life, alternately framed as an existential threat or a potential avenue for renewal.
Your Investments: Greatest danger to Israel's moral mission is prosperity without discipline
It’s important to teach your children the importance of saving. I think that teens should have a bank account. They can learn how compound interest works.
Shabbat candle lighting times for Israel and US
See Shabbat times for your area.
Parashat Vayechi: Change begins with you
Anyone who truly wants change must begin with himself – to be better, more generous, more understanding, and more open to differing views.
Parashat Vayechi: King David's lesson in leadership
King David’s final words are not a farewell. They are a summons. A summons to responsibility, to faith and to moral resolve.
Grapevine, January 2, 2025: Is the Buzaglo Law still valid?
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
Orthodox rabbi Julius Berman, who influenced secular and observant Jewish institutions, dies at 90
His extensive leadership at some of the largest Jewish communal organizations in the United States defined his broader legacy.
Israel’s Somaliland recognition shows the real purpose of the Abraham Accords - opinion
Israel’s recognition of Somaliland reflects the Abraham Accords’ focus on survival, stability, and strategic cooperation, not sentiment.