It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...

The quintessence of the story is that Abraham wanted to make it well-known to people that they should recognize G-d as the Creator and be grateful to Him. In order to get the audience for this message ...

Some sages call this Torah portion of Yitro – a miniature Shavuot. Though we are not gathering publicly to stay up all night, of course you are welcome to do so privately. It is the portion where we ...

Mansour, who was the oldest hostage in Hamas captivity, was born in Iraq in 1938 and is recognized as a Holocaust survivor. When he was three years old, he experienced the 1941 Farhud massacre in ...

Professor Ruhama Albag, aunt of released hostage Liri Albag, on Friday spoke about her unique meeting with Liri and the other ...

The folks behind the kosher, pay-what-you-can spot, which operated in Scotland for three years, aim to reopen in Crown ...

The tribes will go up to Jerusalem on Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot. There they will all be friends with each other and will ...

The moment in which the Jewish people are summoned ... One of his best-known songs, Shibolei Paz (The Golden Ears), is dedicated to the celebration of Shavuot, for which we provide a link to both the ...

But while he's known for innovation, he traces his own storytelling roots to older influences he experienced growing up in a Jewish community in the 1960s and '70s. Ira joined us for a ...

The Tucson Jewish Community Center was abuzz with learning and conversation into the early hours of the morning during the recent Meeting at the Mountain, a special Shavuot event that brought the ...

For me, as a moshavnik Israeli, Shavuot is about celebrating my roots and my Israeli indigeneity. It’s the deepest way to express our Jewish identity—through a profound connection to the land itself.

Besides Shavuot, the 115-year-old Great Synagogue of Rome is also decorated with flowers during weddings. JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism ...