We need to follow in Miriam’s footsteps. Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz is the Senior Rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in New ...

Following World War II, Jewish survivors — mostly women, but some men — married members of the Allied forces. Speaking with ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sarah inscribed 2 meaningful lines in the historic “Washington Torah” ...

The novelist John Irving is famous for telling stories set in his native New England and in Austria, the site of a pivotal ...

The South Carolina Council on the Holocaust cut a rabbi’s plea for tolerance from a video memorializing the liberation of Auschwitz. Matthew T. Hall says it needs to be restored.

At a Holocaust Remembrance Day event attended by Governor Henry McMaster, Rabbi Sam Rose prayed for tolerance to migrants, refugees and the LGBTQ community.

The Qur’an contains 99 Arabic names (attributes or character traits) for the multifaceted essence of the one God, but not one of them connects the one God with one people, while one of the dozens of ...

In 1901, the Amsterdam city government started to replace privately owned slums with cooperatively run housing. The project ...

The Jewish tradition loves serious play with words. This week’s Torah portion begins with God’s telling Moses, “Go to Pharaoh” (Exodus 10:1) to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go. The problem is, ...

On Monday, a group of Societies of Friends sued the Trump administration over an immigration directive that no longer considers churches “protected areas.” The churches argue it infringes on their ...

Strange that the last three of the ten plagues are in a separate Torah portion. Even more striking i ...

The Talmud purports to be the written version of the oral Torah that Pharisaic and later Orthodox Judaism believed was ...