Hanukkah’s story hides a complex past involving power. For converts, the holiday forces questions about how Judaism receives ...
Jews who are invited to the homes of non-Jewish acquaintances for a Thanksgiving meal should keep the Purim story in mind.
Amazingly, the Maccabees were able to defeat the major world power of their day. We should be looking more carefully at the ...
The Biblical Book of Esther tells us to celebrate the defeat of Haman and his Jew hating followers: “…celebrate annually the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar as a time when Jews got ...
Tree of Life congregants will perform in Calvary's Christmas pageant, followed by a Festival of Lights celebration ...
When past New York City mayor Bill de Blasio visited my former shul in New York a decade ago, he joked of how he was once at an international mayoral conference with Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai, and ...
The New Jersey senator tied the knot with Alexis Lewis in an interfaith ceremony that featured a rabbi and Jewish rituals.
I have a vivid memory of how one home in my middle-class suburban New Jersey hometown was decorated at this time of the year.
In June, after Zohran Mamdani somehow bulldozed through the New York Democratic mayoral primary and seized the nomination, I ...
Israel advocacy, ties the knot with Alexis Lewis in an interfaith ceremony that featured a rabbi and Jewish rituals ...
A senator since 2013, Booker, 56, has been called “the Senate’s most Jewish non-Jew, with speeches that feature Torah analysis and a record 25-hour speech that featured his penchant for Hebrew.
On Monday, Dec. 1, an estimated 700 people filled the sanctuary at Paradise Valley’s Temple Solel, with another 100 watching online, to hear a wide-ranging conversation between Rabbi Angela Warnick ...