It’s hard to imagine commemorating such a dark event on a day of joy. The cognitive dissonance would be unbearable.

Simchat Torah, “the Joy of the Torah,” came later, when Jews began completing the annual Torah reading on this day. In Israel, both names belong to a single day; in the diaspora, the holiday stretches ...

With the third anniversary of Oct. 7 at hand, it is a good time to check in with Rabbi Yanky Kahn, one of Los Angeles’ most frequent and most generous visitors to Israel since H ...

Shemini Atseret after Sukkot on October 7 2023 was a disaster not only for the state of Israel but for all Jews outside the ...

Israeli officials spent much of the day examining whether the incident aboard Flight FZ1073 was an attempted terrorist attack ...

Reeis, director of the Antisemitism Task Force at StandWithUs San Diego, has tried to bring local news media’s attention to ...

It seems that the Israeli election will be the moment for a reckoning for the pogroms of Oct. 7, the events of Oct. 8 – the ...

This is more than a proposal to construct apartments. It is an invitation to reconsider what a Jewish institution can be.

No more than seven days after election results are officially confirmed, Israel’s president must choose a candidate, a Member ...

Then he looked at his matted dog, who hadn’t had a bath or haircut for God knows how long, and nodded. An hour later, the dog ...

Pete Seeger, a brilliant lyricist, based the song "Turn! Turn! Turn!" on one of the Bible’s books of wisdom, Ecclesiastes, ...

Their goal is to ensure Jewish preschools become community hubs for families, starting in the earliest stages of parenthood.