During Trump’s first term, a number of synagogues sheltered immigrants at risk of deportation. Three major Jewish religious ...

The Jewish population of Judea and Galilee was divided into three religious groups, two major and one minor. The largest group by numbers were the Pharisees but they were not a majority.

Despite its tumultuous beginnings, Ramat Shlomo today represents the ever-changing landscape of Jerusalem – a city where ...

The ubiquitous KKL-JNF blue box has been part of our reality for generations, with a history stretching back through the ages ...

My grandfather served four years in the trenches of Belgium and France fighting the “Tommies”, as he would have called them.

When Oleg Rostovtsev hovered between life and death after a serious operation last April, he asked friends and family to do ...

A new book charts the rise and fall of a short-lived haven for working-class immigrants and their soon-to-be upwardly mobile ...

IRIS and other refugee resettlement groups in CT are struggling amid the loss of funds and suspension of refugees entering ...

Jews find meaning in our religion in many ways. Personally, my inspiration doesn’t come from fearing antisemitism or visiting ...

A. Grünebaum shoe store in Witten, Germany, before World War II. Suzanne Cohen's great-great-uncle started the store, and after the Holocaust, she and her family believed it was gone. She recently ...

A Princeton sociologist said since the U.S. didn't welcome those fleeing Cold War–era regimes, "churches [and] synagogues declared themselves to be a sanctuary to refugees." ...

This past weekend my partner and I got together with a group of friends. We’ve been meeting every six weeks or so since 1982.