Many of us grew up with a straightforward Hanukkah story. It is a parable of resilience, told and retold throughout the ages, ...

Tickets for the lighting on Wednesday are available at NationalMenorah.org. Ticket holders get some special Hanukkah perks, ...

With a rise in antisemitism in the U.S., a USC study finds that a lack of representation in entertainment can have greater ...

Ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredim) who decide to leave the community and disaffiliate are at a stressful crossroads in their life.

Guatemalan authorities on Monday recovered several minors taken from a care center by members of an ultra-orthodox Jewish ...

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 ...

Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day, which has only happened four times since 1900. For some rabbis, the intersection of the two religious holidays ...

December is a month replete with religious holidays. In our world there are 4,300 recognized religions and a limited number of major ones, which include Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, ...

In contrast, the Islamic schism from Judaism did not promote a hatred of the parent religion. Islam was never antisemitic in the way that Orthodox Christianity was. The Islamic – or Koranic ...

Holiday lights may have religious roots, but today they also bring joy to people of all backgrounds, author Eli Federman ...

it was important to them that the infant go through a Jewish court to formally convert to Judaism. Avrahami seeks to fulfill the Jewish legal and cultural expectations of Orthodox women ...

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight ...