It's a rare scene: Hundreds of Jews, sitting quietly in a synagogue chapel, turn their attention to a women dressed in a black robe and colored sash. As she steps onto the bimah of the congregation, the filled sanctuary falls silent as she offers her...
Every strand of Judaism has its misfits: A collection of individuals who imagine themselves within a particular Jewish community while expressing themselves outside of its rules. Even amongst the insular, strictly structured Orthodox communities there are the hidden black sheep who get swallowed by louder...
The battle for civil rights was won in part by its most visible fighters: the heroic sit-in activists and Freedom Riders who risked it all in the name of a fair and desegregated nation. But courage comes in many forms. The movement’s success also owes...
In a triumph for religious liberty claims, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that for-profit companies could not be forced to pay for their employees’ contraception if doing so violated their religious beliefs. The two companies in question--Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties, both owned by Christian...
SORRENTO, ITALY--A new production at the Theater Amsterdam reimagines the world famous story of Anne Frank and her diary. Entitled simply “Anne,” it is a contemporary, multimedia theatrical production brought to life by internationally renowned Dutch Jewish husband and wife writing partners Leon de Winter...
International shock and anger resounded after last week’s kidnapping of three Israeli youths in the West Bank, widely attributed to Hamas and deemed a “despicable terrorist act” by John Kerry. The flames of outrage have been fueled by a growing social media campaign known by...
Like many Jews, Victoria Kimerling plans to celebrate the end of a long workweek by sitting down to a traditional Shabbat meal. But unlike most traditional Shabbat meals, Kimerling will spend this one with 2,000 of her closest friends....
This Father's Day, we want to thank you, dear readers, for sending in dozens of your best, funniest, most touching photographs of your beloved dads and families. Take a moment to enjoy the selection in our slideshow!...
My parents were Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivors who fled World War II and ended up in Mexico, where my sister and I were born. They lost most of their families. My mother had only a brother, an uncle and a cousin who survived, while my father...
Flickr Israel announced Thursday the construction of nearly 1,500 housing units in settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, with a possible 1,800 to follow. The new settlement expansion is a direct retaliation to the new PA government which ends the seven-year feud between Fatah and Hamas. Israeli housing minister...