With a rise in antisemitism in the U.S., a USC study finds that a lack of representation in entertainment can have greater ...
The center of Jewish life is the Jewish home, not the synagogue prayers. Mindless prayer is no prayer, but neither is thought ...
The process of disaffiliating from ultra-Orthodox Judaism is accompanied by the loss of social support and the social norms ...
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 ...
Guatemalan authorities have searched the compound of an extremist ultra-orthodox Jewish sect and taken at least 160 minors and 40 women into protective custody after reports of abuse ...
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 ...