However, the territory can claim some interesting footnotes in Jewish history — beyond Israel’s move last week to become the ...

Explore the intricate layers of Jewish history and its connections to the broader narrative of world events and identities.

The program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...

Yet this framing itself is mistaken. God did not ask the Jewish people to choose between faithfulness and responsibility, ...

As a moment in time, the Oct. 7 massacre was, paradoxically, an event both anomalous and familiar, at once exceptional and routine. It was horrifying and shocking to the extreme, yet, given the ...

During the Jewish golden age in Spain, from about AD 900 to 1300, Jews contributed to the economy, arts, and pursuit of scientific knowledge that thrived during the sometimes uneasy coexistence of ...

Last week, in the wake of the economic downturn caused by Covid-19 as well as losses from cancelling its summer camp season, the Union for Reform Judaism announced it would be firing sixty employees, ...

“Rabbi,” asks a man in that evergreen Jewish fairytale film “Fiddler on the Roof”: “Is there a proper blessing for the tzar?” It’s late October, and Jews leery of Halloween and its pagan origins may ...

(RNS) — Reform Judaism in Israel has come of age. Those are all great candidates, but in my opinion, the most important day in the history of Reform Judaism was Tuesday, March 23, 2021. That was when ...