Zionists draw on the military imagery of Hanukkah, while others look to the synagogue prayers that focus on the miracle of ...

Conference on Moses Mendelssohn, new book fuel debate on thorny issues of faith, identity. As any Jew knows, trying to define what it means to be Jewish is difficult, if not impossible. Yet still we ...

Hanukkah’s story hides a complex past involving power. For converts, the holiday forces questions about how Judaism receives ...

We believe it is time for the Jewish community, and for New York, to reconsider how we help our loved ones live fully, and ...

Rabbi Shea Kaltmann said food and sports are two great ways to unite people regardless of religion or background.

From day school to charter school, summer trips to youth programs, the author discovered that being Jewish is as much about ...

If Yonatan Adler's theory proves correct, then Judaism is, at best, Christianity’s elder sibling and a younger cousin to the religions of ancient Greece and Rome. Photo by Uriel Sinai / Getty Images ...

As DNA tests become more common, people who "feel" Jewish are discovering hidden ancestry and converting through American Jewish University.

A group of rabbis, congregants, synagogues and havurah are launching the Jewish Diaspora Movement, a new vision for Judaism ...

The Erin Foster phenom's issue isn't offensiveness. It's using Judaism as a hood ornament. By Steven Zeitchik Senior Editor, Technology and Politics About 20 years ago, when Six Feet Under ruled the ...

The Bible is the world’s most influential book. But books, like people, can be influential because of what they say, or because of what they are thought to have said. With a book as huge as the Bible, ...

Meet the other stars (Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Banks!) who have done the same. Natalie Portman, left, and husband Benjamin Millepied arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, for the 84th Annual Academy ...