Jewish People

An exhibition on the history of Judaism has opened in Wellington right in time for the school holidays. The collection has taken decades to build and has been acquired almost entirely by one man. Michael Clements...

San Francisco-based Taube Philanthropies has announced a $5 million gift to the Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot in Tel Aviv, Israel. The gift will help fund construction of the Tad and Dianne Taube Lobby and Taube...

When Wimbledon starts next week, no other Jewish tennis player will be seeded higher than Diego Schwartzman. The scrappy 24-year-old from Argentina, fresh off an impressive five-set duel with perennial star Novak Djokovic at the...

Ynet reporter Yaniv Pohoryles will receive on Wednesday the 2017 B’nai B’rith World Center Award for Journalism Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportage. Pohoryles, home page editor and writer for the Jewish World section of Ynet,...

B'nai Jeshurun stands on 88th Street among expensive Upper West Side apartments, an impressive synagogue in an elegant Moorish style. It’s best known for lively and well-attended Shabbat services, which can attract thousands of...

A blue plaque on a stone wall in the Rechavia neighborhood of Jerusalem seems to hold a special significance. One May evening in 1947, Alexander Rubowitz, 16, was abducted at that spot and never...

“If I live to be 100, there will still be so many things unsaid,” Kirk Douglas wrote to his wife, Anne, in 1958, four years after their marriage in Las Vegas. After marking his 100th...

Sarah Waxman and I immediately bonded over our curly, Jew-fro-esque hair. As Jewish women have done for centuries, we swapped notes over the creams, conditioners, gels, and mousses we use to keep the frizz...

Naomi Alderman has won the Baileys Prize for Fiction for her fourth novel, The Power. The announcement was made at a glitzy ceremony at London’s Royal Festival Hall tonight. Formerly the Orange Prize, the award is...

Two rebbetzins gave birth to daughters on the same day in the same hospital, sparking celebrations in Liverpool’s Jewish community. Liat Lieberman, 29, of Allerton Synagogue, gave birth in the early hours of Monday morning...