A local organization is raising money to convert a vacant Troy church building into a Jewish community center, designed to ...

Rosh Hashanah in 2025 will begin at sundown on Monday, Sept. 22, and continue through nightfall on Wednesday, Sept. 24.

This July Fourth, members of the Jewish faith can take particular pride in one of their rabbis likely inspiring America’s ...

Elie Wiesel may not have lived to see the latest devastating wave of antisemitism, but he did prepare us to confront it. Let ...

The Last Supper took place during a significant time in the Jewish calendar. Passover, a celebration of God’s miraculous ...

The recent Jewish Federations of North America’s Pride Mission to Israel brought 100 LGBTQ+ Jewish leaders from 26 communities across the US and Canada to Israel for a trip that was concluding ...

New moons are called such because in many lunar calendar systems, such as the Islamic or Hebrew calendars, months were reckoned with the new moon at the beginning. In Islamic calendars the month ...

On Kings Highway in Brooklyn, where two men verbally assaulted peacefully protesting Jewish kids, shouting “effing Jews” and threatening to kill them, per a X (formerly Twitter) post. During a ...

More than half of Jewish students — 53% — said they experienced discrimination over their religious identity, compared to 43% of Muslim students and 10% of the total population. And while half of all ...

During the past five years, the New Community Chevra Kadisha has quietly committed to updating its practices. The volunteer-led sacred society, which prepares the deceased for Jewish burial, has ...