My last semester of college, I had an Alvin Ailey phase. My time in Philadelphia was rapidly coming to a close and I felt an ...

Denver’s Jewish Film Festival opens next Thursday, Jan. 22, with a lineup of 40 productions ranging from full-length features to shorts and documentaries portraying Jewish culture, history, and issues ...

Yom Kippur is the holiest day in Judaism and is dedicated to reflection, repentance, and atonement. It occurs ten days after the Jewish New Year and concludes the period of moral self-examination.

As Israel’s head of military intelligence, he disregarded signs Egypt and Syria were about to attack in 1973. A commission blamed him for the lack of preparation. By Richard Sandomir and Johnatan ...

WYOMISSING, Pa. - Spending the day protecting the right to worship freely. "We've been contracted by various temples throughout the Berks, Lehigh, Carbon and surrounding counties for a number of years ...

The Washington Post’s new right-leaning opinion editor fired at least half a dozen staffers — some of whom learned of their terminations while observing the Jewish high holy day of Yom Kippur — ...

This Yom Kippur should have been a day of quiet reckoning. Instead, outside Manchester’s Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation, a man used a car and a knife to turn worship into carnage. Two congregants — ...

Jonah Kaplan is an award-winning journalist who has built a strong reputation for his balanced reporting, thoughtful interviews, and deeply researched coverage of high-impact issues affecting the ...

In our news wrap Saturday, police in Britain are questioning six people arrested in connection with the deadly Yom Kippur synagogue attack, Japan’s ruling party elected an ultra-conservative leader ...

Israel said the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) was carrying plenty of activists, but no aid. The flotilla, which consisted of 40 vessels, was intercepted on Thursday during Yom Kippur, the holiest day on ...

LONDON (AP) — An assailant rammed a car into people at a synagogue in northwest England and then attacked with a knife in what authorities have called a terrorist assault that left two people dead and ...

We’ve known something like this would happen for years. But that didn’t make it less shocking when it happened. After attacks on Jewish shops, schools and synagogues across Europe, it felt like a ...