For more than four decades, Rabbi Hazzan Jeffrey Myers has made a ritual of reinvention, crafting Purim spiels that spoof the biggest names in popular culture with music and wit. While “A Hard Night’s ...

The Justice Department is suing the University of California over allegations that UCLA failed to protect Jewish employees ...

Columnist Jason Touvi writes, “the Jewish story in Florida is not only about the past, but also about living, growing, and ...

A painterly animated film revives the memory of French Olympic hero Alfred Nakache, a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz.

As a genre, historical poetry has an uphill battle. It’s not often placed in bookstore endcaps or featured in magazines and podcasts unless it’s tied to a specific event, like Black History Month or ...

What would Henrietta Szold, the mother of Hadassah, have to say about books being banned? What would she say to the librarians whose lives have been threatened, have been the target of curse words, ...

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(RNS) — More than a century ago, in 1896, Rabbi Solomon Schechter, the great Jewish educator and founder of Conservative Judaism, traveled to Egypt to begin documenting a trove of Jewish manuscripts ...

Author Gilly Segal, left, interviews literary agent Rena Rossner, center, and rabbi and author Angela Buchdahl at the Artists Against Antisemitism 2025 Jewish Writers Mifgash, Sept. 14, 2025. (Photo ...

Two gunmen shot at a crowd of beachgoers in Sydney, Australia, killing at least 16 people and wounding at least 40 during a Jewish holiday event at Bondi Beach on Sunday, in what Australian ...

Alex Ryvchin of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry describes how an event that is “one of the happiest days of the year” - a Hanukkah celebration in Bondi Beach, Australia - turned into a ...