Judaism

“We are in the year of Hakhel, the Jewish year specifically calling for us to gather together, and there is no more important time for this to happen than today, with all that is going on in Israel.”

"Let me just tell you something - that I hate the charge. I find it repulsive. I hate even the question..."

Trump's view on third-trimester abortion conflicts with mainstream Jewish halakha.

Genomics and Biomedical Informatics (GaBI), Physics, and Jewish Art.

Some Russian-descent students just don’t understand that Israel is a Jewish state, Mahmoud Abbas notwithstanding.

Britain is allowing a neo-Nazi march on Golders Green, a Jewish section of London, on July 4.

A couple wants to reintroduce the ancient species of Jacob sheep in Israel.

"In the face of such evil, we stand now as we did then. With faith... As we say, 'be strong.'

Thousands upon thousands of Jews celebrated Lag B'Omer at the Tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai with song and dance and heartfelt prayer.

“We appreciate the important words of the French Government... However, it doesn’t appear that much has changed on the ground for French Jews, who are still regularly attacked."

A mother in Israel has appealed to the country’s Supreme Court a rabbinical court ruling requiring her to circumcise her son. In her appeal filed...

More evidence of ancient Jewish presence in the Land of Israel: 1,700-year-old gravestones uncovered.

"Such absurd and historically baseless resolutions undermine UNESCO's mission of safeguarding humanity's cultural heritage."

In a poll on anti-Semitic incidents on campus, Columbia University has rated as the worst for US Jewish students in 2016.

Tomorrow, together with literally tens of thousands here in Hebron and Kiryat Arba, we will read in the Torah how Abraham, almost 4,000 years ago, purchased the Caves of Machpela for us, his children.

Despite the rising number of deadly terror attacks, there have been miracles this past week as well.

Our halacha is not more concerned with whether or not to ordain an "openly gay" man as rabbi than it is with an "openly thieving" man, or "openly driving on Shabbat" man, or "openly eating pork" man – you get the point.

It’s an emotionally grinding drill that was all too familiar to Arele and David Weingarten, when their mother, Miriam succumbed to the disease after prolonged cancer treatment.

The Los Angeles-born woman, whose daughter was spat on by extreme Haredim in Beit Shemesh, has given up her fight for religious tolerance and leaves the city , but she blames modern orthodox Jews.

Rabbi Levi Shemtov says he is privileged to supervise the "kosherizing" of the most important kitchen in the USA.

Chabad mitzvah mobile 'mitzvah tanks' are spread throughout the country.

"Some of the slurs that were painted may upgrade the charges to some form of a hate crime, but that's further down the road," police said.

Emphasizing "there was no hatred" behind the calls, the boy's father said it was the "illness" that pushed him.

The ruling is sure to alter the lifestyle of many religious smokers.

A county in Sweden is moving ahead with plans to ban the non-medical circumcision of boys, its leading elected official said. Per-Ola Mattsson, the commissioner...

In New Zealand a Jewish toddler wearing a yarmulka is attacked; the adults consider teaching their young to hide their identity.

If there is such a thing as religious coercion, there also is secular coercion.

This Chanukah the family of Rabbi Joseph Raksin, z'l, merits the miracle of closure; an arrest in the rabbi's murder.

Jews are gathering at Chabad-led "farbrengens" in Israel and around the world to celebrate the Chassidic New Year, "Yud Tes Kislev."

People formed a human chain in Tel Aviv from the US Embassy to the Russian Embassy to call for an end to slaughter in Syria.