A rare 300-year-old Torah from Yemen was recently dedicated to the B’nai Vail Congregation, to be used and preserved by the Jewish community in the valley. Marc and Rhonda Strauss have been members of ...

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. Instead of spending their ...

At 8:45 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 17, over 70 of Yale’s Jewish students departed from the Slifka Center, beginning an hour-long parade around campus with singing, dancing and two plastic-wrapped Torahs.

Jewish congregations in Palm Beach are planning to celebrate the normally festive holiday of Simchat Torah this week, but a trace of melancholy will linger over observances. The Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas ...

A survey by the National Institutes of Health in 2022 showed that roughly 23% of Americans have a mental illness. The percentage makes up 59.3 million adults in the United States. As mental illness ...

Fourteen years ago, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg, directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of Mumbai, were killed during a horrific terrorist attack. In the year following the tragedy, it was a hakhel year ...