Judaism News

An Albany area rabbi has been arrested on sex abuse charges stemming from alleged incidents involving a 13-year-old boy.

Jews in the Southland and around the world today celebrate the first day of Rosh Hashana, the two-day holiday marking the Jewish New Year.

Many of Maryland's Jewish residents are keeping kosher and keeping up with the latest food trend this High Holiday season --buying eco-friendly, organic and locally grown kosher staples, a movement some are ...

A driver, described as a terrorist by Israeli authorities, ran amok in a busy intersection near the Old City's storied Jaffa Gate just before midnight Monday, injuring 17 pedestrians before being shot dead by ...

Bill Maher had to face down protests when he showed up at the premiere of "Religulous" at the Toronto International Film Festival a few weeks ago.

Elie Wiesel survived Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp where his father, mother and little sister died.

Heather Box says that "life got in the way" in recent years, keeping her from observing the Jewish High Holidays.

Jews, according to both anti-Semites and philo-Semites, are smart folks. Anti-Semites claim that Jews are highly intelligent - and therefore threaten the world via conspiratorial monetary and political control.

The city, Itil, was the capital of the Khazars, a powerful nation that adopted Judaism as its official religion more than 1,000 years ago, only to disappear, leaving little trace of its culture.

I am taking the occasion of the Jewish High Holy Days to discuss the relation between Christianity and Judaism in general, and to pick up on a recent column by Rabbi Jack Romberg of Temple Israel, Tallahassee's ...

IS Colin Farrell so in love with British novelist Emma Forrest that he's converting to Judaism for her? The two, who have been dating since June, stopped by the Heeb magazine storytelling event at MBar in West ...

The pairing of comedian-hip interviewer Bill Maher and guerilla director Larry Charles is nothing less than a match made in heaven.

Some weeks ago, I concluded a column with these words: ...we need to find a compelling way to finish the sentence that begins with the words, "It is important that the Jewish people survive in order to..." In ...

El Paso Jewish clergy are gearing up for Rosh Hashana with motivating liturgical messages and educational talks for the community.

For many Jews around the world, the sound of the Shofar will herald the coming of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

Sep. 25--Guilford College junior Muhanji Afanda got a "pa-thuu" out of the shofar by pressing his lips together and blowing through the opening of an instrument first used by Hebrews more than 6,000 years ago.

Tehran, 25 September: President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad said Zionists are not followers of any religion but are only a political party who are seeking dominance, power and wealth.

SIR Paul will make history tonight when he performs in Israel. More than 100,000 people will cram into Hayarkon Park for the occasion.

Bill Clinton seems to be looking for any excuse he can find to avoid campaigning for Barack Obama.

Gary Tobin and Dennis Ybarra. The five-year study of 28 history, geography, and social studies textbooks, published by Lexington Books, reveals that the most widely used textbooks in America's schools are ...