Everyone knows pork isn’t kosher. So why, then, are Jews so obsessed with it? For nearly all of Jewish history, pigs have been inescapable. During eras of Roman rule, rulers would challenge Jews ...

(RNS) — Was he, or wasn’t he? The question says more about American Jews than about the great explorer himself. (RNS) — Just in time for Columbus Day, reports emerged on Monday (Oct. 14 ...

Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post. In my 50-plus years as a Jewish community leader, I have shared opinions and made calls to action on many issues affecting ...

“People who built sukkot last year will continue to do so,” said Rabbi Joav Melchior, who leads a Jewish community of about 2,000 in Oslo, Norway. “This doesn’t mean people here aren’t ...

So did the other 350 residents of Israel’s only Messianic Jewish moshav. Sitting on a pine-covered ridge about ten miles west of Jerusalem, the Yad HaShmona community has lived in steady tension ...

JTA — For many Jews across the United States and the globe, memories of last year’s Shemini Atzeret and Simhat Torah will forever revolve around grim phone alerts and hushed conversations in ...

That’s right, only 32 years after the establishment of the tiny Jewish state, which was surrounded by 22 warmongering, Israel-loathing Arab states, and only 35 years after the Holocaust savagely ...

Photo: John Roca/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images The Jewish year, which ended Oct. 2, was a terrible one for the Jewish people. Those in Israel endured Hamas’s savagery, while many in the ...

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Coaches from Carson, Banning, San Pedro and Gardena refuse to play Narbonne, claiming the Gauchos are paying and housing players. Marine League football coaches have agreed to boycott Narbonne ...