Walter Bingham highlights the historical and modern challenges of assimilation, antisemitism, and apathy that continue to ...

Traditional Jewish ceremonies, like Christian ones, marked a woman’s transition from daughter to wife − going from her ...

A Yiddish translation of “Arabian Nights” sounds like the set-up to a Borscht Belt joke. Yet, as a recent finalist for a ...

Before revolution toppled the Iranian monarchy in 1979, Tehran and Tel-Aviv exchanged tourists and trade instead of missiles ...

Thousands of Syria’s Jews left in recent decades. But after Assad’s ouster and easing of sanctions, they can now reconnect ...

Her mission with the Great Nosh Picnic was even bigger. She wanted to create a large-scale celebration of Jewish food and ...

The Bible contains a story of how a young Jewish woman named Esther became the Queen of Persia and saved the Jews from an ...

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

I came to California for a job. I ended up staying in Los Angeles for the man who handed me the wheel — and his heart.

An LGBTQ+ pastor insists that the Christian right gets it wrong, arguing that the Bible is a queer-friendly text.

If there’s one thing that’s characterized Temple Beth David’s Rabbi Nancy Myers' career, it's her persistence.