Originally released as a blog in 2019, this piece has been updated to reflect recent news and communal work. For all our hand-wringing generation after generation, Jewish communities seem to have ...

Chanukah and Hanukkah refer to the same holiday, and both are correct spellings for the Jewish Festival of Lights. While the ...

How do we define a Jew? Is a Jew someone who is born to a Jewish mother, or is a Jew defined by his/her actions? In short does the fact that we are born Jewish, identify us as Jews regardless of how ...

The Duden dictionary had recently added an explanation to its online edition saying that “occasionally, the term Jew is perceived as discriminatory because of the memory of the National Socialist use ...

A German dictionary entry for the word “Jew” has been changed after members of the country’s Jewish community complained that the definition was problematic. The definition offered by the Duden ...

The completion of the 3,000th page of the late Eliezer Ben Yehuda’s Hebrew Thesaurus was celebrated at a small gathering of the savants and trustees engaged in preparing for publication the ...

When the sun set on November 28, Jews across the world lit two candles to observe the first night of Hanukkah (the first is called a shamash, a “helper candle” that lights all the others). But for ...

Homemade inari sushi, mandle bread, rice balls, spicy edamame, hamantaschen, and rice crispy treats. If there was anything incongruous about the offerings at the recent bake sales for Japan earthquake ...

Boycotting Israel and calling for an end to its Jewish majority is not inherently antisemitic, according to a new definition of antisemitism released Thursday by a group of more than 200 scholars of ...

More than 200 Jewish scholars released a new definition of anti-Semitism stating that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement isn’t anti-Semitic. The scholars, under the umbrella of a ...