For the first time in my life, I didn’t attend services for the Jewish High Holidays. My knee took preference over my brain’s ...

The status of the Temple Mount and the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem has become a destabilizing issue in Israel and the Middle East. The demand for the “liberation” of al-Aqsa has become the battle ...

Will Jews dance this year on Simchat Torah? To answer this question, the Magazine interviewed several people in diverse ...

Repenting for individual sins seemed too small in the face of the wars in Gaza and Lebanon, writes Rabbi Amy Eilberg.

A MAGA-inflected spectacle in Washington last week cast Kamala Harris as demonic, and Trump an avatar of biblical justice.

I know this – if we are going to write the next chapter of Jewish life post October 7th, we need our young families not only ...

In a letter to Catholics in the Middle East on the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, Pope Francis ...

This is my hope and prayer. Let’s stand on the side of love.

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Gaza Palestinian shopping streets in the Old City were almost empty on Wednesday afternoon as Jerusalem prepared for the week ...

On Shemini Atzeret, the seventh day of Sukkot, Jews read tefillat geshem, an ancient Hebrew prayer for rain, during synagogue services. The prayer beseeches God to bring the Land of Israel enough rain ...

Jewish Family Jewish families committed to keeping a kosher diet now have space to store, prepare and eat food at Joe ...