The Gaza cease-fire deal currently on the table aims to free at least 28 hostages in exchange for a 60-day truce, but whether it sticks or not depends on how Israel and Hamas agree to end the war, ...

The section on the Red Heifer, teaching purification from the impurity of death, is a preventive measure, a spiritual remedy ...

To be sure, each quality can be expressed in a holy way and an unholy way and the stakes are high. In every interaction and ...

The ritual may seem irrational, but it's actually an example of Judaism at its best because it invites us to reenact the past ...

Guns & Moses,” an indie thriller out this month about a gunslinging Hasidic rabbi who hunts down a killer, is set in a world ...

At a time when the Trump administration has renewed a travel ban on various Muslim majority countries in Africa and across ...

Cartooning for Peace, and Cartoonists Rights condemn the violence and arrests targeting the opposition satirical magazine ...

One of Iran’s leading human-rights defenders warns that authorities there will turn on their own people to consolidate power ...

A new Jewish concept restaurant opens in S.F. The co-author of a Jewish Mexican cookbook will speak in S.F. on July 8. And ...

French pop historian Vincent Lemire's illustrated tome makes some loaded choices in depicting the Jewish parts of history.

The policy change at Adath Jeshurun Congregation, a large synagogue in suburban Minneapolis, goes against rules set by the ...

Fourt staff members including the cartoonist have been formally arrested for “inciting the public to hatred and hostility.” ...