The art deco-style JAA ark dates to at least 1933, when the Jewish Home for the Aged — the precursor to JAA — opened its doors in Squirrel Hill, after nearly three decades in the Hill District, said ...

On Holmby, Wolpe dedicated the program’s sixth hakafah — traditionally, seven hakafot are performed on Simchat Torah — to all ...

An Israeli soldier recently released by Hamas said the group had allowed him to perform Jewish prayers and provided him with a Torah during his captivity in Gaza. Matan Angrest, who was freed on ...

Boca Raton synagogue, B’nai Torah Congregation, played host to nearly 500 people for their SukkotFest Family Experience on Oct. 6. Families and friends joined together to celebrate the holiday, which ...

TEL AVIV, Israel — Hamas hastened Tuesday to ease the pressure on a fragile ceasefire in its war with Israel by returning the bodies of more dead hostages. The move came after an Israeli military ...

"This Simchat Torah, we will dance again." That refrain was echoed coast-to-coast by American Jews on Monday, Oct. 13, as they prepared to celebrate one of their faith's most joyous holidays following ...

A team of experts have made an important discovery about some Dead Sea Scroll fragments in the United Kingdom. They have found letters on four fragments that were believed to be ‘blanks’. This finding ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Their faces stare down from every street corner in Israel on posters now sun-faded and ripped. Their stories, told by anguished family members, are almost as well-known as ...

The world on Monday celebrated the release of the remaining hostages taken by Hamas in the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, as the first phase in the U.S.-brokered ceasefire plan held in the shaken region.

Ryan Hartman didn't wait long to pick up where he left off in the playoffs, scoring the Wild's season-opening goal with 4:06 left in the first period. Minnesota may not have dominated the possession ...

A woman in Maine received 250 blank state ballots in her Amazon package last week, triggering an investigation from state and federal authorities. The woman, who opted not to be identified, said she ...