The star waded into some of history’s most charged debates about the Jewish community with her comments on the Holocaust and race. (JTA) — She may not have meant to, but this week Whoopi ...

The Jewish Federation of Cleveland celebrated the closing of another record-breaking Campaign for Jewish Needs with an estimated 200 supporters on Dec. 11 at the Joseph and Florence Mandel Jewish Day ...

On the heels of a firebombing of a synagogue in a Montreal suburb, a Jewish elementary school for girls – Bais Chana Mushka – in Toronto was the target for gunfire in the early hours of Friday.

The Jewish festival of Hanukkah, which in 2022 begins on the evening of Dec. 18, focuses on the story of the male Maccabees.

The term “Old Testament” is a loaded one since it assumes the existence of a “new” testament — an idea Christians and ...

Protestant Christians do not accept these Writings as inspired by God and refer to them as the "Apocrypha". Sometimes this problem is used to defame the Catholic Church. As an example, John ...

Within Brooklyn's ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son. A tender drama performed entirely in Yiddish, the film intimately explores the nature of faith and the ...

The report said that protections extended to Jewish students must apply when Zionists are named as the targets of exclusion or harassment.

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But the books of the Maccabees, now found in the Apocrypha, were written by proud Jews with strong commitment to Jewish values and observance. Even if these books are not “holy,” they ...

The Bible tells an overall story about the history of the world: creation, fall, redemption and Last Judgement. But who wrote ...

By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their homeland in Judaea across the Mediterranean and there were major Jewish communities in Syria, Egypt, and Greece. Practicing a ...