With Passover just over three weeks away, local Jewish congregations and groups are organizing community seders.

A coalition of strictly religious Jews and progressive, secular, and young Jews have been drawn to the language.

Rauch said religion has merged with political and cultural forces, and this politicization has contributed to both the ...

Yeshiva University has approved a new club for LGBTQ students, reversing a policy that it has spent years defending in court. The school’s announcement on Thursday marks a significant shift for the ...

“And a soul / if it is to know itself / must look / into its own soul: The stranger and the enemy, we’ve seen him in the mirror.” —George Seferis, Mythistorema ...

Once a Muslim-majority nation, Kosovo is witnessing a quiet but growing movement of Albanians converting to Catholicism. Advocates of the shift argue they are reclaiming their ancestral faith, once ...

Purim is hardly over, and the true faces of the haters and loathers have already been revealed. Not so long ago, it was considered best to hide behind a mask and express slanderous incitement against ...

A look at the rise Israel's finance minister who has become perhaps the most influential man in the country, alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The report of the V-Dem Institute on India, as published in The Hindu, states that: “While the condition of democracy is ...

On Thursday 20 March at 09:01 the sun crossed the equator going north to mark the vernal equinox. This was the point in the year at which day and night became of equal length and, going forward, will ...

Despite heavy setbacks since the start of Israel's war on Gaza in October 2023, Hamas continues to project defiance and ...

How a cartoon crisis transformed a local debate into a global reckoning over censorship and religious sensitivities – one ...