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A New Jersey Conservative synagogue finds that instrumental music draws crowds for a Friday night service. (NJ Jewish News)Five synagogues ...

My Hasidic father-in-law, after being initiated as the president of his local branch of United Israel Appeal (an organization that, ...

The Olympics are supposed to be a unifying event, bringing together the world for 17 days of friendly competition. Yet ...

Do you ever notice how, for a paper with so much anti-Israel tactics, the New York Times sure reports a ...

The headline says it all: “Jews discovered on Upper West Side”

Toni Morrison famously referred to Bill Clinton as the “first black president,” writing that he displayed “almost every trope of ...

Remember when all of Jewish Law was ruled by a committee of 71 judges, each of whom were able to ...

One of the customary practices in these nine days is the avoidance of meat: it’s the way we commemorate the ...

Now that Ehud Olmert is on his way out, it’s time to evaluate his possible successors. Or at least their ...

These past few days have been weirdly Communist-centric for me. First, my book that’s coming out in October. Then there’s ...