Jewish History

Sounds like a bad joke?It might as well have been one last Thursday at “A Debate on Jewish Values.” Hosted ...

Several blogs have picked up the Haaretz report about 5 ultra-Orthodox men who apparently assaulted a woman and an Israeli ...

-The Palestinian Authority is paving a four-lane highway inside Israel’s sovereign territory. You’ve never heard of this? That, says Yossi ...

-Michael Freund decries the fact that Subbotnik Jews are allowed to make aliya under the Law of Return “only as ...

-The head of the national Religious party Benny Elon has proposed his solution: Israel would take sovereignty over the entire ...

Yesterday I blogged about JOI’s Big Tent Judaism initiative. As I got to thinking more about problem of being welcoming ...

-Myanmar’s 20 remaining Jews fear for their small community. (Ynet)-The Jewish life in Taiwan, one dominated by Syrian Jews, is ...

Iranian-born German soccer player Ashkan Dejagah is making headlines for electing to skip his team’s upcoming match in Tel Aviv. ...

This week, Rabbi Kerry Olitzky of the Jewish Outreach Institute, along with Rabbi Elliot Dorf of the American Jewish University, ...

This past weekend, Jews began, once again, to read the Torah cycle. As most people know, the Torah scroll itself ...

Guest blogger Rabbi Jennifer Krause is the author of The Answer: Making Sense of Life, One Question at a Time.With ...

Prior to the High Holidays, the New York Board of Rabbis previewed its official Jewish New York History and Heritage ...