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, ...

The center of Jewish life is the Jewish home, not the synagogue prayers. Mindless prayer is no prayer, but neither is thought ...

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 ...

Orthodox Christianity and Islam emerged as much bigger geopolitical threats than Judaism to Catholic western Europe. Judaism receded to the periphery of monotheistic West Eurasia (to use the sensible ...

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 ...