For the first time, New York City's public school students have the day off to mark the holiday of Diwali, celebrated in ...

for the annual homecoming game would even be aware that Saturday was the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. But this is no typical year: The star quarterback for BYU, Jake Retzlaff, is Jewish.

(photo credit: CHEN SCHIMMEL) Next Thursday, the Jewish calendar will have come full circle since Simchat Torah 5784. October 7 has infused every holiday since then with an extra layer of meaning ...

Rumors of this have been floating around the Jewish world for a long time — long enough for us to wonder: Is it true? The definitive essay on the subject comes to us from Jonathan Sarna of ...

A recent book on Jewish identity before and after Zionism shows the limitations of a progressive critique that doesn’t truly account for the experience of Palestinians. German Jewish refugees ...

To make the distressing incident even worse, it came hours before Yom Kippur, the most solemn religious holiday in the Jewish calendar. Local residents took to social media to express their shock ...

Maxa was asking if she knew about a space large enough to host his growing congregation, Ec Chajim, for the holiest day in the Jewish calendar — its own space, which opened four years ago about ...

one of the most sacred days in the Jewish calendar. "We understand this is deeply unsettling for the Jewish community," he said. Insp. Paul Krawczyk of Toronto police's integrated gun and gang ...

Israel entered Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, with the country engulfed in a war. The Day of Atonement arrived on Friday evening under the shadow of intense fighting on ...

but to do it at Yom Kippur – the holiest day on the Jewish calendar – is diabolical. However, this is the Toronto we now live in. When it comes to the treatment of Jews, it is ugly ...

Sirens sounded into the night on Friday in northern Israel as many Israelis began observing Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, one of the holiest days in the Jewish calendar. The Israeli military ...