This year, it no longer feels like history. There’s a long-running debate among observant Jews about whether it is appropriate, in Jewish law, to establish days of mourning and fasting to ...

Let's unwrap all the permutations: The Jewish calendar system is very intricate but can be summed up with a few rules, said Rabbi Baruch Fogel, a Judaic studies lecturer at Touro University in ...

(JTA) — This week marks Yom Haatzmaut, our beloved Israel’s 75th birthday — the day on the Hebrew calendar when ... alive at this moment in history when the Jewish people have sovereignty ...

In this book, eminent scholars in their respectives fields, whose foci span medieval to present-day Jewish history and thought, extend the lines of his seminal study into topics that range from ...