I have experienced ugly, repulsive, bigotry-based acts over my lifetime. It’s hard to witness. It’s even harder to volunteer ...

Thousands of Syria’s Jews left in recent decades. But after Assad’s ouster and easing of sanctions, they can now reconnect ...

Why is there a Jewish practice to bury prayer books and other texts that contain God's name? A rabbi offers the mystical ...

In a world where antisemitism is no longer hiding in the shadows but marching boldly through campuses, city halls, and the ...

From Grenfell Tower to ancient Mediterranean cities, we're still creating gods and shrines in unexpected places.

For decades, diplomats, pundits, and policymakers have fixated on one year when it comes to the Israeli-Arab conflict: 1967.

Faith is quietly rising across Europe, reshaping culture through churches, mosques, temples, and youth-led spiritual ...

From the earliest days of the city’s founding, Jews have helped shape the identity and vitality of New York. As immigrants, merchants, educators, philanthropists, laborers, artists and industrialist ...

The ancient sources implying Queen Zenobia converted to Judaism are possibly accurate,” Haggai Olshanetsky, of University of Warsaw, told JNS.The post Third-century queen, target of Syrian government, ...

An arsonist has set fire to the door of a Melbourne synagogue and forced the congregation to flee, seven months after criminals destroyed a synagogue in the same Australian city with an ...

YORK'S 'forgotten synagogue' has been deconsecrated. The occasion was marked by a service was led by Rabbi Alby Chait. The ...