Israel’s chief rabbis urged controlled alcohol consumption, while the IDF Military Rabbinate ordered a complete ban on wine and other alcoholic beverages for soldiers.

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At my Kiryat Moshe home, on Purim, students wondered why they will say 'next year in Jerusalem' in the Haggadah when they are ...

It’s a standard trope in portrayals of assimilated Jews to open with a scene built around a Christmas tree. That’s how Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” and Alfred Uhry’s “Last Night of Ballyhoo” begin, ...

The win broke a 46-year Olympic drought for Team USA, which had not taken gold since the famous “Miracle on Ice” team that upset the Soviet Union on its way to gold in 1980. Jewish hockey star Jack ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Black leader who sought to build a “rainbow coalition” for America’s future but struggled to include Jews in it, has died at 84. For American Jews, Jackson’s use of an ...

JTA — Jewish hockey star Jack Hughes scored the game-winning goal Sunday to clinch a gold medal for the US men’s hockey team, its first since 1980. The New Jersey Devils star center, who had scored ...

Jewish hockey star Jack Hughes scored the game-winning goal Sunday to clinch a gold medal for the U.S. men’s hockey team, its first since 1980. The New Jersey Devils star center, who had scored twice ...

Chief Rabbi of Safed says Jews should make certain changes to their daily prayers today, observe the Fast of Ester more ...

WASHINGTON — More than 150 rabbis and cantors protested outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, Feb. 11, in what organizers said was the largest ...

Ordered at gunpoint to separate Jewish soldiers from other POWs, Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds called a full formation of Americans and told a German commander: "We are all Jews." By Matt White, ...

After he was forced off the German stage in 1934 by antisemitic hecklers, Leo Reuss found a daring way to hide in plain sight Leo Reuss rehearses with celebrated stage actress Christl Mardayn in 1937.