Recounted in the Book of Esther, the spring holiday of Purim is traditionally celebrated with feasting, gift-giving and ...

We are at a point where we are realizing it’s not being used and starting to think about what might be next for it' ...

The conversations were playing out in the midst of the fall Jewish holiday season. The initial meeting took place days before Yom Kippur, and soon afterward, Rabbi Yonah Gross, a senior official at ...

RK: The Kennedy Center is a wonderful place, but that’s really a group of theaters. They’ll do touring companies or they’ll ...

The Romans named the seventh day Saturday, based on the Roman god Saturn. The word means “enough.” Saturn’s reign was ...

Purim, therefore, is the prototype for Jewish survival during exile. The Divine Providence hidden in apparently random events ...

From a world-class jazz bassist to a brand new space opera, there are a lot cool shows to catch in the Bay Area.

Kapparot, the pre-Yom Kippur folk custom of swinging a chicken ... The ritual has often encountered clucks of disapproval, and this High Holiday season is no different. In the United States ...

The tenth and eleventh weekly Torah readings from Exodus, Vayakkel (35:1-38:20) and Pekekudei (38:21-40:38) deal with the construction of the Tabernacle during Moses’s time. Many readers think the ...

Breads Unlimited & Pizza, a Jewish bakery and pizza eatery, is set to open a location in Kensington this summer.

The Druze are all connected everywhere they are, like one big family,” Amar explained. “Many of those who crossed the border ...

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