Holocaust survivors and guests sit at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, during ...

Passover is one of the two most important Jewish Holy Days or festivals in the entire year. On the one hand, coming in the spring it celebrates harvest. On the other hand, it commemorates one of ...

We knew that this past Shabbat was not going to be an ordinary day of rest, but we didn’t know how harrowing it would be. I got my first request to host guests for Shabbat lunch, even as the ...

All Jewish days, including Holy Days and Festivals, begin at sunset with the lighting of candles. (This has to do with the teaching in the book of Genesis during creation: there was evening ...

It was taken by many Israelis and Jewish leaders to imply that ... receiving Iran’s Ambassador to the Holy See, Hossein Mokhtari, the very next day for the presentation of a plaque containing ...

According to Jewish tradition, Hanukkah commemorates the miracle of oil that burned for eight days after the Maccabees defeated the Greeks. The menorah is a symbol of the temple lampstand.