The center of Jewish life is the Jewish home, not the synagogue prayers. Mindless prayer is no prayer, but neither is thought ...
A new study from the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center's Media Impact Project revealed that Jewish representation on-screen ...
Guatemalan authorities search the compound of an extremist ultra-orthodox Jewish sect and take at least 160 minors and 40 ...
Guatemalan authorities on Monday recovered several minors taken from a care center by members of an ultra-orthodox Jewish ...
Jonah Abrams is a 33-year-old husband and father who was raised in a Reconstructionist family in Elkins Park. He spent many ...
Guatemalan officials said Sunday that members of an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect broke into a shelter attempting to recapture 160 minors taken from their compound two days earlier by authorities, who ...
The simple answer is that the Jewish calendar is based on lunar cycles, and is not in sync with the Gregorian calendar which sets Christmas on Dec. 25. Hanukkah always begins on the 25th day of the ...
In the first year after after graduating from Rabbi Herzl Hefter’s Har’el academy in 2015, she recalled that “about half the ...
Ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredim) who decide to leave the community and disaffiliate are at a stressful crossroads in their life. Many leave close-knit communities for an initially lonely path in a world ...
Nearly half (48%) of those characters were religious professionals such as rabbis and funeral directors while 19% were specified to be Orthodox. Less than one in five characters mentioned Judaism ...