Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, begins tonight. In synagogues or in solitude, many will take time to reflect on the past year, asking themselves where they missed the mark. How could they ...

Stanley Wolf Cohen, a Philadelphia cantor, hospice chaplain and longtime accountant who taught more than 300 boys their bar mitzvah portions with patience and care, died on Sept. 7 at 97. Many of ...

Over the centuries, perhaps no volume of poetry has claimed the devotion of so many people across the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and also inspired the creation of artistic ...

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It's Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. Many will take time to reflect on the past year, asking how they could have done better. And, maybe, how they can put down their lizard. Yom Kippur, the ...

In November 2023, Noureddin Bongo was in the bowels of his grandfather’s presidential palace, being offered vodka by his captors. Except instead of giving it to him to drink, they held his head back ...

Sharabi’s 'Hostage', the first memoir of captivity in Gaza in the aftermath of Oct. 7, serves as a window into an Israeli view of the war. Eli Sharabi’s Hostage, the first memoir of captivity in Gaza ...

Airline Vueling deplanes Jewish children, arrest summer camp director due to alleged disruptions Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli called the incident a "serious" antisemitic incident, while ...