Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape from destruction recorded in the Book of Esther. Haman, an early Hitler in ...

Shavuot falls on the 6th of Sivan on the Jewish calendar, which reckons days as beginning at sundown. This year, Shavuot began Sunday evening and continues for one or two days, depending on tradition.

Thousands of Israeli Jews poured into old Jerusalem today to celebrate Shavuot at the Wailing Wall, the holiest of Judaism’s shrines, for the first time in 19 years.

City council members, other politicians and the media for 20 months have purposely called our anti-genocide protests ...

which continues to inflame global tensions and has contributed to a spike in antisemitism in the U.S. It also came at the start of the holiday of Shavuot, which commemorates God giving the Torah to ...

Jewish spiritual leaders throughout the ages warned us time and again that unless we united, we would suffer. However, time ...

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman honored a volunteer firefighter Wednesday, June 25, for rescuing a sacred Torah scroll ...

Her mission with the Great Nosh Picnic was even bigger. She wanted to create a large-scale celebration of Jewish food and ...

In these turbulent times, when the Middle East is literally on fire with missiles from modern-day Persia and fighter planes ...