Frieda Vizel left her ultra-orthodox lifestyle in a crisis of faith at 25 but instead of cutting ties she became a tour guide ...

Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart delivered an ‘I have sinned’ speech after a prostitute controversy. That’s not how Jews do ...

A Yiddish translation of “Arabian Nights” sounds like the set-up to a Borscht Belt joke. Yet, as a recent finalist for a ...

Three exhibits for YIVO's centennial celebration showcase the breadth of the institute's collection and its own history.

Chabad of the South Hills is hosting its first-ever Jewish Festival on Sunday, June 22 — a family-friendly celebration of Jewish culture, tradition and community open to all residents of the South ...

Ohr Torah Stone President and Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Kenneth Brander responded that Owens’ accusation was “entirely false, ...

Founded after the Holocaust, the Leo Baeck Institute marks 70 years of preserving the heritage of German-speaking Jews.

Members of the British punk band Bob Vylan have had their U.S. visas revoked by the State Department after leading thousands ...

When German rabbi Leo Baeck was liberated from the Theresienstadt concentration camp on May 8, 1945, the day the war ended, he no longer believed in a future for Jewish people in Germany.. Who ...

Other events from “A World of Jewish Culture” include an encore screening of the film Auction at 4 p.m. June 5 at the College of Charleston Education Center. Tickets are $10.

Turkish and/or Muslim writers such as Fatma Aydemir and Nazlı Koca – who now lives in America, writing in English – tell ...

A tractate concerning Jewish monetary law from the Babylonian Talmud, scribed in 1721 by a 12-year-old Amschel Moses ...