Holidays

Israel moves to high alert and security restrictions are in effect on the Temple Mount today in advance of Yom Kippur.

Noam Federman had a lamb in his possession.

More than 100 Jewish institutions were briefed on security in a pre-holiday conference call by the US Dept. of Homeland Security and Jewish Federation.

If you love her, let Sarah Prager go. At least there's a good chance her daughters won't grow up to become anti-Semites.

IDF official Yoav Mordechai intervened with the Palestinian Authority to free four peaceful Arab neighbors jailed for visiting the Efrat mayor's sukkah.

Can anyone even remember a time, ever, when the Megilla was read at the White House?

The sale remains in place until conditions allow for people to go to the mikvah.

Chabad's "Roving Rabbis" are spending Tisha B'Av in far flung corners of the globe this weekend.

You are the grownup, so don't let your children do on Purim things you won't let them do any other day of the year.

Israeli four species farmers facing sizable downturn in Shmita year.

If Jews had the ability to ignore religious provocation when they saw one, we'd still have the Second Temple, if not the First.

All things considered, we could be watching the arrival of our redeemer, God willing, right on YouTube.

It is impossible to paint lipstick on either of these pigs, but in the competition between Halloween and Christmas over which of the two holidays is more dangerous Halloween wins out, hands down.

Police report that tens of thousands of people visited the grave of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in Meron this year. It's become a popular tradition...

In late August, four coalitions of Jewish clergy issued statements they planned to boycott the president's call, in response to Trump’s weak response to the neo-Nazi and white supremacist riots in Charlottesville, Va.

This year, volunteers will erect and dismantle some 250 Sukkot around the country.

Obama's Chief of Staff twisted Hanukkah into a holiday that is supposed to remind Jews of Muslim refugees, some of whom are proven terrorists.

Israel has 9,327,000 citizens, more than 11 times its population of 806,000 at the time of the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948.

Jewish travelers en route to Paris from Barcelona were pulled from the flight on the British EasyJet airline.

Simintov's hostile relationship with the other last Jew in Kabul, Ishaq Levin, became the subject of a play in the UK.

"We thank God for the ancient faith of the Jewish People and the unbreakable bond between the United States and Israel..."

“This has nothing to do with politics or anti-Semitism,” and we reject any claims which try to present it as such.”

At the ninth hour, Chabad of Dead Sea whipped together sheva brochot in 2 hours for a newly wedded tourist couple -- out of nowhere.

"Volunteers have come from all over the country and are active around the clock to provide emergency medical care in Meron."

Tens of thousands of Jews are expected to participate in various events in honor of Jerusalem Day on Sunday, marking the 51st anniversary of the liberation and unification of the city.

“Who would have believed that peace would come to our home in such a glorious way? It is a Hanukkah miracle,” says Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch.

The pre-Yom Kippur practice of using a live chicken for the "kapparot" ritual was banned in three Israeli cities this year.

Israel’s beach season began officially Thursday morning, May 1, with a bright sunny day and breezy skies, and continues till October 23.

Hanukkah menorahs were glowing across the nation, even in the tiniest corners.

Colel Chabad’s national network of soup kitchens is part of Israel’s longest continuously running charity, founded in 1788.