(JNS) Avigayil and Ariel were the most popular names given to Israeli Jewish girls and boys, born in the Hebrew year 5784, the Population and Immigration Authority said ahead of Rosh Hashanah.

At its core, Brandeis is animated by a set of values that are rooted in Jewish history and experience. The first of these is a reverence for learning. Brandeis reflects the values of the Jewish ...

This is what we call the Diaspora, that is, the dispersion of Jewish population throughout the Empire, and we know that there are major Jewish communities in most of the large cities of the Empire ...

An M-16 was found in the headboard storage space of a child’s bed made up in Dora the Explorer sheets ... Help ensure Jewish news remains accessible to all. Your donation to the Jewish ...

Learn about the history of being Jewish in America through video clips and book excerpts. THE JEWISH AMERICANS is a three-night documentary that explores 350 years of Jewish American history.

UJA’s comprehensive survey, the Jewish Community Survey of New York, takes a look at population estimates and demographics in all five boroughs as well as Westchester and Long Island.

Perhaps a jaunt down memory lane will help. I was 5 when I was first aware not only that I was Jewish but that being Jewish had consequences. My father asked me what I had learned in school one ...

Later, a man named Moses saved the Jewish people from persecution in Egypt when he led them to safety across the Red Sea. After this, the Jews lived in the desert where God gave Moses a set of ...

Jewish people were removed from public office and professions – civil servants, lawyers and teachers were sacked. School lessons were to reflect the view that Jewish people were ‘Untermensch ...

Rosh Hashanah means “Head of the Year,” observed on the first two days of the Jewish new year. This year, Rosh Hashanah marks the Jewish New Year of 5785. The Jewish holiday celebrates the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended his warm wishes to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Jewish community for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. Modi expressed hopes for peace ...

The college is Brooklyn College. The magazine is Jewish Currents. If you’ve never heard of it, that is because it’s tiny. Decades ago, it was militantly atheist and affiliated with the ...