Purim is a one-day festival that honors the Jews' salvation from near destruction in Persia, or ancient Iran, nearly 2,400 ...

Purim 2026 begins March 2. Here's what the Jewish holiday represents, why it's celebrated and why it's not 'Jewish Halloween' ...

This evening, Purim celebrations began, in accordance with the Home Front Command's guidelines, with the reading of the Megillah, telling the story of the miracle that saved the Jewish people during ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Jewish people in the northeastern U.S. are more likely than those elsewhere in the country to say antisemitism is a serious problem and that it has increased a lot — which is ...

JERUSALEM — Jews around the world remembered Pope Francis as a friend to the Jewish people, a leader who strongly supported Catholic-Jewish relations and roundly condemned antisemitism. While some ...

Since the time the United States was but a coalition of villages and settlements, America’s Jewish citizens have played an indispensable role in our national story. They arrived as farmers, soldiers, ...

Pope Leo XIV says that the Catholic Church has a special connection with the Jewish people, rejects any form of antisemitism, and acknowledges “conflicts” in dialogue in recent times. The pope devotes ...

This week, in Colorado, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a group of Jews marching peacefully on behalf of hostages held by Hamas. The attacker shouted, “How many children have you killed?” and “We ...

Chicago Jewish native Matthew Reitman learned a song–by Rabbi Larry Milder–with these lyrics in Hebrew school. Now that he is an adult, the words ring truer than ever for Reitman, and it’s all because ...