The Hamas Movement has called for mass mobilization to protect the Aqsa Mosque following a dangerous escalation — an attempt ...

Trumpeldor, a rare Jewish officer in the Czarist army ... Greenberg at his Ramat Gan home in the decade prior to his death. He prayed wrapped in tallit and tefillin, rushing back-and-forth from wall ...

The Halichos Olam program, developed for seventh-grade students, aims to inspire and guide talmidim in their study of Hilchos ...

Mayoral candidate Brad Lander said he’s so Jewish “that I almost became a rabbi” while discussing his faith and the fight against antisemitism Wednesday night. Lander, the city comptroller ...

The conversation – and the larger one surrounding the Israeli-Gazan conflict – has had a stranglehold over Jewish-American discourse for the better part of two years. I girded myself for the ...

There are moments in Jewish history when ancient teachings suddenly illuminate our present. In the wake of October 7, as our people confront pain, resilience, and unity, a midrash in the Mechilta ...

L’chaim! A brand new, massive Jewish food festival is coming to New York City this summer, a one-day-only event huge in scale and flavor. The Great Nosh, dubbed as New York’s biggest picnic ...

But she never knew her Granny Fanny; she had never celebrated Jewish holidays. A perennial jar of borscht in the cupboard had been the extent of her Jewishness. “It was so peripheral in my ...

Following Monday’s protest, in a post on X, the UW campus Chabad posted a photo of a Jewish student laying tefillin, the ritual prayer item, outside of the engineering building after the protest.

It has been a banner year for Jewish student-athletes across the country ... where all the guys come and they pray, they put on Tefillin. Certain guys started telling me they're like, 'Z, I ...

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I run to the Tefillin stand right at the entrance and grab a pair, I come running back into the tunnel, thank G-d they were still there. I tell him he’s Jewish and every Jewish man at the age of 13 ...