The very name of this holiday — “the joy of the Torah,” celebrating the completion of the annual Torah cycle — connotes an emotion we cannot fully inhabit on the anniversary on the Hebrew calendar of ...

Palestinian Arabs continue to destroy Jewish archaelogy as the war goes on in order to cleanse all evidence of Jewish history in the region - in most cases with money and equipment provided by the EU, ...

Answering whether there is life after death depends upon what is meant by ‘life.” If "life" means living, breathing, material ...

Ceremony includes special prayers for those held captive in Gaza and for the welfare of Israel's soldiers The post Relatives ...

Each Torah portion includes a line-by-line analysis, with Shoff sometimes bringing in multiple sources to provide insights.

Going up to the Temple Mount – the place of God’s presence on Earth – in the middle of this painful Jewish era.

Jim Gaffigan brings his "Barely Alive" Tour to Delta Hall at the Eccles Theater on Oct. 23 - Oct. 25 at 7 p.m., Oct. 26 at 5 ...

For the first time in my life, I didn’t attend services for the Jewish High Holidays. My knee took preference over my brain’s ...

It turns out that a holiday we consider as only suffused with joy for centuries had an undercurrent of mourning running ...

A recent rally drew a fervently pro-Trump crowd of nationalist Christians to D.C. The gathering displayed how religion is attracting a multiracial and multiethnic component to Trump's base.

Everyone knows that pigs aren't kosher. But in a new book, Jews' relationship with pork came to define Jewish culture and ...

A stay at the historic Sergei Palace Hotel in central Jerusalem felt like a hassle-free vacation abroad. The Sergei Palace ...