Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight ...

Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day, only the fourth time that’s happened ...

As the collections of Sir Moses Montefiore and David Solomon Sassoon go under the hammer today, what's the future for rare ...

We would do well to remember the many ways we Jews continue to enjoy a unique and positive role in America, and to use that ...

The center of Jewish life is the Jewish home, not the synagogue prayers. Mindless prayer is no prayer, but neither is thought ...

Archaeologists have recently publicized the earliest known evidence of Christianity north of Italy, calling the discovery one ...

During the last fifteen months, the Jewish people have come together like never before; and for a short time, we were all ...

The first night of Hanukkah and Christmas Day converge for the first time since 2005. What are families who celebrate both to ...

After a while I decided that I wanted formally to become Jewish. I was referred by the rabbi at the synagogue to a class for ...

Jonah Abrams is a 33-year-old husband and father who was raised in a Reconstructionist family in Elkins Park. He spent many ...

The Lev Tahor community, founded in 1988 in Israel, practice an austere form of Judaism with interpretations of Jewish law that includes long prayer sessions and arranged marriages ...