Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion is struggling with dwindling rabbinical school enrollments and ongoing ...

Founder of VIT celebrates Pongal, emphasizes importance of Tamil language, traditional art forms, and agricultural innovation ...

A historian remembers the Conservative day school in Queens as it drops the Schechter name and becomes Orthodox.

Duolingo and podcasts are great, but true cultural immersion will involve learning the language. In addition, sign up to attend an ulpan (Hebrew school ... author of two books: “Sell, I ...

Weaving together the stories of Zohara, a 30-something Yemeni Israeli woman living in New York City in the 90s, and her mother, who immigrated to Israel in 1950, Songs for the Brokenhearted is ...

American Jewry is diversifying demographically. It’s no longer the overwhelmingly Democratic and Eastern European community ...

Our Etz Hayim chumash translates Joseph’s question הַע֥וֹד אָבִ֖י חָ֑י as “Is my father still well?”, but a more literal ...

As an interesting aside that only etymologists like myself could appreciate, the name Juanacita itself sort of has a connection to Chanukah. This is because that name derives from the name Juan/John, ...

In honor of Hey Teves, we highlight the most prolific Chabad author, HaRav Yaakov Goldstein, and his new position as Rosh ...

December is full of celebrations. Hanukkah is one of the oldest holidays celebrated. People have celebrated the Jewish ...

When Jews were expelled from Portugal, many moved East to form the Sephardic community we all know, but as many Jews, perhaps ...

Judaism has always been open to what the world is learning and saying. It has fallen to every generation of Jews to determine ...