To begin with, what is a 'pagoda'? Buddha relics and basic knowledge of three-story and five-story pagodasThree-story and ...

Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster remembers her dear friend and Broughton Park Jewish Christian Dialogue ...

Yom Kippur contains a striking paradox: we are commanded to both rest and afflict ourselves. We stop working, eating, drinking and engaging in many of our ordinary physical routines. Yet this ...

Purim is considered one of the most fun, happy and joyous holidays on the Jewish calendar. It is a festival that commemorates the saving of Jewish people living in ancient Persia. “In one word, I ...

As the summer came to an end, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel stood before a room of Jewish Democrats and reached for the Book of Esther. Jews, she intoned, have “a moral imperative to place the ...

I am not an Orthodox Rabbi so I do not feel I am required to defend the orthodox claim that every word of the written and oral Torah is the unchanged original word of God; yet I do believe that for ...

We are lucky that the earliest mentions of holidays like Pesach or Purim, as found in our foundational scriptures, still ...

The Education Ministry and the economy live in parallel universes: Just two weeks after summer vacation, Israeli parents face ...

The calendar itself is a dialogue between Heaven and Israel. G-d gave us His appointed times, and in return we gave Him ours.

At its core, the shofar is the sound of self-sacrifice. It echoes Abraham’s willingness to sublimate his own wishes to those ...

From the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11 to “Trumpapalooza,” on this week’s round table, the Opinion contributor Robert Siegel ...

The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, celebrates the rich artistic traditions of the Jewish people ...