An old man lays down his prayer tassels, his tzitzit, in front of a tax collector. They are, he says, the most valuable thing he has. But he’s not trying to pay off his debt; they are simply a gift. “It wasn’t about the tassels — they’re...

In January, construction workers renovating an old tenement house in the city of Lodz, Poland made an unusual discovery. They unearthed hundreds of Jewish artifacts that were hidden before the Nazis occupied the city. The cache included menorahs, kiddush...

Ben Ferencz, the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials had died. According to St. John’s University law professor John Barrett, who runs a blog about the Nuremberg trials, Ferencz died Friday evening in Boynton Beach, Florida. "I am deeply...

Bram Hoffman is knee-deep in books. He is in a dimly lit back room at Dunaway Books, one of the largest independent bookstores in St. Louis located at 3111 S. Grand Ave. Stacks upon stacks of cardboard boxes surround his small workstation. The boxes...

(JNS) The Torah reserves some of its most elegant poetry for nautical phenomena amid the Red Sea parting. Exodus 15 describes the “heart of the sea” and Divine nostrils blowing “majestic” waters. Immediately after Miriam’s song celebrating the...

For more than a millennium, the haggadah has been the centerpiece of the Jewish holiday of Passover. The book sets out the ceremony for the Seder meal when families tell the biblical Exodus story of God delivering the ancient Israelites from slavery in...

Evangelical support for Trump has been strong since he was elected in 2016; despite the former president’s multiple divorces, adultery and profanity, many have stood behind him, justifying their support through comparisons to biblical figures — particularly...

(JTA) — “What the son wishes to forget the grandson wishes to remember.” That’s known as Hansen’s Law, named for the historian Marcus Lee Hansen, who observed that while the children of immigrants tend to run away from their ethnicity in order...

This story was originally published by the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle and is republished here with full permission.  Private Joseph A. Joel noticed on his calendar that Passover was coming. He and 20 fellow Jewish soldiers requested relief from...

During an interview in 2016 with author Dawn Lerman about her new book “My Fat Dad: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Family, with Recipes,” we got to talking about her maternal grandmother who Lerman would spend Friday nights with as a child. Each Shabbat...

You do not need to be a Talmudic scholar to wonder "what does it mean to be Jewish in 2023?" You just need to have a bit of curiosity and then know where to go to find some answers. One good way to learn more about being Jewish is to take a Melton course. Melton...