The vigil at Bondi in memory of the slain and injured gunned down by ISIS followers brought together Jews of every ...

Hanukkah itself was born from this tension. The Hasmoneans were outnumbered and outmatched by the Seleucid Greeks, yet they ...

A pilgrim who visited the Second Temple in Jerusalem may have carved their memories into a limestone block for another synagogue.

Leading Jewish groups in the United States are urging all Jewish organizations to ratchet up security at public events ...

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Chanukah, if you believe the accounts, is God’s last saving act before the coming of Jesus. It is about the restoration of God’s presence with his people, through his own grace and power, not the ...

For the last two years, Nazareth, the hometown of Jesus Christ, has not been able to properly celebrate Christmas. Due to the ...

Prophet Zechariah solves this tension by envisioning a future where there will be peaceful cooperation among peoples under God’s universal dominion. Zechariah proclaims the centrality of the Temple in ...

On this Hanukkah, I will be thinking about what we need to do to ensure the candles still shine. Let this be the year that, ...

What is provocative is the world’s growing comfort with Jews being hunted in plain sight. If a Jew cannot walk freely in a ...

As a not too gross generalization, most Israeli Jews are animated by a particularistic ethos. Simply put, this is an ethic rooted in Jewish peoplehood, survival, and the country’s unique circumstances ...

Into this fragile reality, the prophet delivers a message that has echoed down through the centuries: “Not by might nor by ...