Established by the United Nations General Assembly to be observed on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau ...

Rabbanit Leah Sarna, the first senior rabbinic leader of her Orthodox synagogue, creates another crack in a persistent glass ...

What Lester Chang did [to win his assembly seat in 2022] was good old-fashioned retail politics. He got young men, young women of high school age and college age out there. He went door-to-door.

BEST OF 2019: Photographer Federica Valabrega takes us inside the secretive lives of Orthodox Jewish women from around the globe, from New York to Jerusalem. Video by Sebastián Díaz Aguirre ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration, like many inauguration ceremonies before it, was a secular event with ...

Irene Skolnick, 87, and one of a dwindling number of survivors living in Pittsburgh, was 2 years old when the Nazis marched ...

In 1970 she broke an unwritten rule against women lawyers in the Southern District’s criminal division. She went on to mentor ...

Born Robert Allen Zimmerman, in Minnesota, Dylan has the Hebrew name Shabtai (derived from the word Shabbat) Zisl (meaning sweet) ben Avraham, and was bar mitzvahed on May 22, 1954. He attended cheder ...

Rabbi Ari Berman of Teaneck, president of Yeshiva University in Manhattan, is among several religious leaders invited to the ...

New York State and City have “engaged in what can be described as ‘lawfare’ against yeshivas,” a leader in the Bobov Chassidic community told JNS.

In 1980, a Manhattan synagogue with a special outreach to unaffiliated Jews was looking for a catchy slogan to encourage young people to take on the rigors of Shabbat observance.

The new documentary 'Torah Tropical' shows the struggle of Latin American converts to be accepted by the broader Jewish ...