(JTA) — It’s been a busy couple of weeks for breast cancer. Of course, breast cancer is always busy, exerting its sneaky destruction through abnormal cell growth. But now it’s October and Breast ...

Breast cancer can strike any woman at any time, yet few young women are fully aware of the potential deadly threat they face. For Ashkenazi Jews like myself, this disease looms as an even larger ...

Based on the skeletal remains, scientists reconstructed the face of a male adult (left) and a child (right). Credit: Professor Caroline Wilkinson, Liverpool John Moores University (CN) — Skeletons ...

Ashkenazi is the name for a group of people of Jewish descent who lived in western Germany in the medieval era. In later centuries, Ashkenazi Jewish people migrated elsewhere, including Eastern Europe ...

I have an aunt named Malkah who I may never know, because she was kidnapped from a Jerusalem hospital in 1961. I didn’t even know that Malkah existed until two years ago when my grandmother, Aisha ...

I’ve lived in the Jewish neighborhood of Pico-Robertson for nearly 18 years, and while much has changed, one thing hasn’t: the incredible mix of Jews from around the world. On a typical day, you might ...

Israeli guard Or Ashkenazi is garnering attention from various mid and high major college basketball programs. Ashkenazi, a 6-foot-5, 21 year old prospect played for Hapoel Eilat in Israel's top ...

The idea that ethnic difference among Jews would disappear in the Israeli melting pot has not been borne out, experts say. (JTA) — Imagine if little was known about the extent of racial inequality in ...

EXCLUSIVE: Israeli-American filmmaker Matthew Mishory has wrapped principal photography on hybrid drama Mosolov’s Suitcase after a near six-year struggle to complete the production in the face of the ...