Speaking of which, there’s the reverse case of refusing to change one’s name despite (or to thumb one’s nose at) ...

Pamela Nadler Emmerich — then a teenager from Montreal — arrived in Jerusalem for her freshman year at Hebrew University. ...

What is Israel's Independence Day and how is it celebrated? In this guide, cover a short history, with facts about the ...

"While I may not fit others’ ideas of a Jewish teen born to Jewish parents," writes a JTA Teen Fellow, "I will not let their ...

When Jessica Yeroshalmi started her political science degree at Baruch College in New York six years ago, she was surprised to learn that some students in her classes had no idea there were Jews with ...

It’s time for official US documents to reflect this historical truth, etched in stone across our ancient landscape.

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...

Ancient Tel Shiqmona site yields first evidence of large-scale purple dye production centuries before Roman times, possibly ...

Tens of thousands of people gathered at the holiest Jewish prayer site in Jerusalem on Tuesday for the traditional priestly ...

The Haggadah says that we celebrate Passover as if we, today, were there. And yet after biblical times, early in the Talmudic era, the rabbis imagined a human hero at the Red Sea: Nachshon ben ...

The Bible mentions the Book of Jasher twice. The Book of Jasher was lost sometime in antiquity, and no mention of it appears ...

Relatives of hostages in Gaza say they feel the absence of their loved ones acutely during Passover, which commemorates the ...