Two newly ordained Renewal rabbis from Oakland are bolstering the movement’s 50-year-old legacy in the East Bay.

Plus, Jewish leaders offer other biblical lessons from the Philadelphia Eagles victory over the Kansas City Chiefs.

Another Jewish community was established in the port of Nagasaki. In fairly short order, the Russo-Japanese War and the Great ...

There were 50,000 Jews in Syria at the beginning of the 20th century – an ancient and historic community ... and following this bade us goodbye. “Shabbat Shalom,” he wished me, as we stood ...

Yet, according to the fourth-century sage Rava, it is a religious commandment for a person not only to drink but “to become intoxicated with wine on Purim until he does not know how to distinguish ...

A few days before flying back to LA – dragging my feet along with my suitcase… but for that last Shabbat ... but with an ancient twist; and the words Ofra Haza sang so powerfully come from the Hebrew ...

For generations of Jews, the Shabbat represented an unbreakable freedom. They knew every new Pharaoh was a phony, and that no ...

Rabbi Daniel Bouskila is the international director of the Sephardic Educational Center.

The tradition has its roots in a teaching that when Moshe warned that there would be no manna on Shabbat, some of the nation placed their double portion of manna in the fields to discredit him.