During the day of Shushan Purim, I normally walk through the city of Jerusalem and stop at one of the Chabad Purim tents ...

In honor of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s 100th birthday, we take a deep dive into the cultural institution’s ...

The scroll of Esther seems historic, not just allegoric. It says very clearly that Haman wanted to kill and exterminate all Jews. He got permission from the Persian King to order the slaughter of all ...

Fulfilling the commandment of circumcision means taking the ordinary body of a human being and transforming it into something ...

Comedy writer Rob Kutner’s latest book, “The Jews: 5000 Years and Counting,” is a hilarious and informative Judaism lesson ...

Artifacts from 1,000 years of Ashkenazi Jewish life including literary transcripts, Herzl's diary, everyday notes and ...

Dosick was working at his dining room table in Carlsbad when he suffered the heart attack about 9 p.m. Friday.

Purim, therefore, is the prototype for Jewish survival during exile. The Divine Providence hidden in apparently random events ...

The Second Book in the Fascinating Memoir from Touro University Press Chronicles Shtetl Life as Never Described Before ...

In 1941, a group of intellectual Jews confined to the Vilna ghetto — writers, scholars, poets and the like — were forced by the Nazis to plunder their own people’s treasured works for a Nazi ...