Residents of the 210-unit Gurwin Jewish-Fay J. Lindner Residences in Commack offer life advice to the next generation.

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

The Senesh School in Brooklyn provides its students with knowledge and talking points about Israel. And yet, some of my ...

The Hebrew word “chesed” is often translated as “loving-kindness” or simply “goodness.” The Tucson Jewish community’s Day of ...

Join Malcolm Hoenlein, the former executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and JNS CEO and Jerusalem bureau chief Alex Traiman for an ...

ST. JOSEPH FOUNDATION: The St. Joseph Community Health Foundation has awarded a $10,000 grant to Lutheran Social Services of ...

The United Nations is “morally obliged” to help secure the release of the 100 hostages being held by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip, Israeli President Isaac ...

(JTA) — A Complete Unknown, the new Bob Dylan biopic set in the early 1960s, ends years before the singer’s controversial “gospel” period. Starting with 1979’s Slow Train Coming, Dylan ...

Creating your own light to brighten the darkness is the goal of the eight-night Jewish holiday and that goal was easily accomplished by every serve and strike of the ball on the paddle by those ...

Hanukkah, also spelt Chanukah, is a Jewish festival known as the "Festival of Lights," celebrated for eight days and nights, beginning on the 25th of Kislev in the Hebrew calendar. The Hebrew word ...

The simple answer is that the Jewish calendar is based on lunar cycles, and is not in sync with the Gregorian calendar which sets Christmas on Dec. 25. Hanukkah always begins on the 25th day of ...

Hanukkah's start date on the Gregorian calendar varies year by year because the Jewish calendar is based on luni-solar calendar cycles. According to Chabad, months under the Hebrew calendar follow ...