“All Jews are responsible for one another,” the Talmud teaches us (Shavuot 39a). While many take that principle as relating to helping out other Jews in trouble, Ki Tavo – in describing the ...

In June, the small left-wing magazine Jewish Currents summoned its donors and close confederates to a private event in a ...

26:4-10). We all know the passage. Instead of saying it on Shavuot when bringing first-fruits, we now say it on Pesach as the central part of the Haggadah. What remains remarkable is that, even in ...

Autumn marks the beginning of the holiday season both in Israel and in many other parts of the world. While Jewish people are ...

It is Landing Day, the 370th anniversary of the arrival of 23 Jews at New Amsterdam, which would become New York City, which ...

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I learned from rabbis, colleagues and neighbors throughout L.A. that given the diversity of Jewish experience, our identities ...

The enduring traditions of the High Holiday season take shape across time and place in the latest crop of children’s books ...

( JTA) — Benj Pasek has become the eighth Jew to win an EGOT, taking the elite show business throne alongside his songwriting ...

Benj Pasek becomes the eighth Jewish EGOT winner, alongside songwriting partner Justin Paul, for their work on "Only Murders ...

Temple Ahavat Achim’s new rabbi, Naomi Gurt Lind, has come a long way in her journey to become a rabbi, both physically and ...

Naomi is Ruth's mother-in-law in the Hebrew Bible, and the name is considered symbolic and often bestowed upon girls on Shavuot when the story of Ruth is read in the synagogue. The name also means ...