Despite it being the fourth Purim amidst the war, the Jews of Kharkov celebrated Purim in style, with hundreds of people of ...

“That is not an Amulet it is a Jewish tefillin,” wrote an account from a New York City rug gallery. The object, which the Met says it acquired in 1962, is listed as part of the museum’s ...

Special emphasis is dedicated to ensuring that every base has a “Scroll of Esther” written on parchment.The post Purim for every IDF soldier appeared first on JNS.org.

The 600 members of the Palm Beach Synagogue wanted to help Israeli hostages who were released last month as part of a ceasefire abroad. The synagogue’s members pulled together $750,000 in a week, they ...

Montana Tucker, Dan Ahdoot, Zach Sage Fox, John Ondrasik and Judea Pearl were among those who spoke at the StandWithUs ...

The Purim story begins about 900 years after the Exodus from Egypt, in what is now Iran, history repeats itself. The Jews had been living in Israel continually, since they first entered with Joshua.

In a message Murphy sent to Cantor Michael Zoosman, a former prison chaplain who runs L’Chaim, a Jewish anti-death penalty group, Murphy said the back-and-forth on what will happen to him is ...

After uniting the Jewish nation in repentance and prayer ... We put on the same type of tefillin (phylacteries) that were worn in Qumran 1,700 years ago. Anti-Semites have attempted to eradicate ...

Once school dismisses at the Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh, Abraham “Abi” Zablow can often be found most afternoons outside ...

Ryan Lavarnway started playing baseball when he was 5 years old, attended Yale University, where he set National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) records for batting and slugging percentages, wo ...