Jewish World

Author Sandra Feder notes that Judaism acknowledges a duality in life: with the bitter often will come the sweet, and vice versa.  “Sweet wine or grape juice is used to welcome Shabbat on Friday...

Thousands of Israeli pilgrims traveling to the burial site of a revered rabbi in Ukraine ahead of Rosh Hashanah next month will not be permitted to connect through Moldova and will be rerouted via...

In a ground-breaking initiative, a new Orthodox Jewish university is set to open its virtual doors offering a learning experience that is truly unprecedented in the world of Jewish education. At this university, a beacon...

Congress for Jewish Culture together with the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language, the Jewish Labor Committee and the Workers Circle, we present this video of yesterday's solemn gathering טרויער־אַקאַדעמיע https://youtu.be/Af6ppw_PExM?si=6XhFt2F63Qt-1JRt In memory of the Soviet Yiddish...

One of the images in a mournful poem by the seventh-century rabbi Eleazar ben Kalir, which is a central kinah prayer chanted on the Tisha B’Av fast day, refers to the silenced words of Temple singers. Giving literary form...

Tisha B’Av, the pinnacle of the Jewish mourning period for destructions of the First and Second Temples, will be observed this year from sundown on Aug. 13 until nightfall on Aug. 13. It is...

With her German accent, wit and warmth, therapist Ruth Westheimer—known affectionately as “Dr. Ruth”—helped romantic couples better understand their intimate relationships for more than 40 years. She died in Manhattan on Friday at about 11:30...

This year’s Lag B’Omer celebrations in Israel will see significant changes due to the ongoing conflict with Hezbollah in the north of the country, and recent emergency measures taken by Israeli authorities. The traditional pilgrimage...

Lag B’Omer, which this year begins at sundown on Saturday, May 25 and ends at nightfall on Sunday, May 26, is the day between Passover and Shavuot. According to the Talmud, a plague that...