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Just as ironic as the fact that “White Christmas” was written by a Jewish composer named Irving Berlin, Peeps, those famously neon-colored marshmallow Easter treats, are also produced by Jews. Based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,...

Attendance this year at the main event organised by Limmud FSU – an international organisation putting together Jewish events in the former Soviet Union — exceeded last year’s tally by 25 percent, organisers said...

Charles, Prince of Wales, spoke with Holocaust survivors in Austria about his grandmother’s role in saving the lives of a Jewish family during the Shoah. Charles and his wife, Camilla, spent the final day of...

Earlier this week, Jews throughout the world gathered around dining room tables with family and friends to celebrate Passover. At the Seder meal, participants are made to feel they were slaves in Egypt by...

Though originating and celebrated widely in the Sephardic community (Jews of Mediterranean background), a small number of North American Ashkenazi Jews (those of Eastern European background) have started celebrating this festival in recent years. Theories...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOVdnG2rwpY&feature=youtu.be The Yad Vashem holocaust memorial center on Wednesday urged White House press secretary Sean Spicer to visit its website after his comments on Hitler sparked outrage. Spicer apologised Tuesday for "insensitive" remarks in which he...

At a Shabbat service in Tel Aviv on Friday evening, congregants recited the mourner’s prayer for those killed in Syria’s civil war. Standing before a mural of the Tree of Life, the rabbi of the...

Since its independence from the Soviet Union, an arduous and painful process in itself, Lithuania has gone to great lengths to take its place among the democracies of Europe. Securing both NATO and European...

Anger over the actions of Indonesian illustrator Ardian Syaf, who created a comic book controversy of epic proportions after local fans found out he had snuck references to his support for the hardline movement...

The US has dropped the "mother of all bombs" - the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the US military - on an area of eastern Afghanistan known to be populated by...