(JTA) — An explosion during a school hiking trip killed a boy about 14 years old on Monday and injured 24 others in northern Israel, Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency medical service, said. Rescue ...

In 1935, the International Astronomical Union formally adopted the name Zagut for a lunar crater honoring Abraham ben Shmuel Zacuto. Modern astronomy has, literally, written his name on the Moon.

Retailing for under $60, this beautifully packaged Advent calendar looks more expensive than it is. The fact that it has every standard chocolate flavor, from white to milk to dark, and easily ...

The life of Abraham Zacuto joins two strands of Sephardic history: persecution and exile, and the transmission of knowledge, texts and technologies across borders.

Finally! It’s acharei ha’chagim — “after the holidays”— that magical time to which Israelis have been postponing everything since mid-August. For olim, especially those accustomed to an American ...

Thur 8 Oct 11.56am • Jacob Vahey, from Hull, is attempting 365 sporting challenges to raise money for CALM mental health ...

Eau Claire will celebrate the Hmong New Year this month. This year marks 50 years since the first refugees following the ...

Israelis gathered at intersections, bomb shelters, and the site of a music festival that Hamas-led militants overran on Oct.

University of Copenhagen historian Sofie Lene Bak has examined antisemitic stereotypes in Agatha Christie’s detective fiction ...

Schroeder’s core thesis relies on the discoveries of another revolutionary Jewish scientist: Albert Einstein. Through ...

Simchat Torah, “the Joy of the Torah,” came later, when Jews began completing the annual Torah reading on this day. In Israel, both names belong to a single day; in the diaspora, the holiday stretches ...

But last weekend, sleeping in a tent at Living Tree Alliance, a Jewish farm and co-housing community in rural Vermont, I found myself much closer to Sukkot’s agrarian roots. Rows of colorful produce ...