Everyone has something to say about the Jewish mother, but the Jewish dad is a harder character to pinpoint. In film and television, he often plays the meek foil to his overbearing wife. But for those ...

(JTA) — Philip Roth’s character Alexander Portnoy captured the insecurity of second-generation immigrants in two priceless sentences. “I was asked by the teacher one day to identify a picture of what ...

The five questions made the three contestants shvitz — and longtime fans of the iconic show gave them a zetz on social media. “Jeopardy!” fans have been hard hit by the loss of Alex Trebek, who died ...

In the short story “Frieda and Her Golem,” the titular character, a lonely rabbinical student, takes inspiration from the Jewish lore of the golem and builds a companion out of meatloaf (being sure to ...

A groundbreaking Yiddish puppet theater began in New York in 1925. Photo credit: YIVO. March 2021 marks the second consecutive year in which Passover seder tables will be notably underpopulated as a ...

JACKSON - When dozens of township residents stepped up to the microphone to speak out against new religious use ordinances, they may have been simply trying to speak out against a potentially ...

Amidst the cacophonous chants of “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free” and “Intifada Revolution” there remains, somehow, a controversy over the intent of these slogans. Pundits either ...

Rabbi Holtzblatt is a co-senior rabbi at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C. The Torah begins with the world being created by words. “Let there be” is the recurring refrain. God names each ...

Born to a Christian mother, Rabbi Cody Bahir had a remarkable journey to the rabbinate that included receiving a post-doc in ...

The religious language that lay dormant for millennia is now global, used by millions of people around the world—including in China. The Codex Sassoon, the oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, is ...

Pro-Israeli supporters march at the "United for Israel" rally at USC on Wednesday in Los Angeles. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) Standing at a cloth-draped table where the Torah is read, Rabbi ...