Kamala Harris wants Jews to donate to her campaign — Jewishly. That’s the unspoken message one Forward reader got in a fundraising email from Harris-Walz headquarters this week. Would she like to give ...

Temple Chai of Long Grove honored its Director of Congregational Learning Laura Siegel Perpinyal, who has designed and guided the congregation's student and adult education programs for more than 10 ...

Beit Avi Chai, together with Koolulam, a social initiative for mass singing, and Zikaron BaSalon (literally: a memory in the living room), recently organized one of the most moving and unique mass ...

A Northwest suburban Jewish congregation's final gift to posterity will be the dedication of its Torah, which survived the Holocaust concealed in a concentration camp in Poland, to the Illinois ...

Over 200 new, original presentations from artists, rabbis, performers and chefs seek to give Jews around the world a way to find inspiration and learning this holiday. This year’s upcoming holidays ...

There are idioms that transcend their etymology, that become, as it were, the distilled essence of an entire people’s will to endure. Among these utterances stands the seismic refrain, “Am Israel Chai ...

“You’re going to put all this in the newspaper?” Eleanor Epstein spoke as if she had her hand on her hip. The founding director of Zemer Chai, a Jewish choir of 40 years, was not expecting a phone ...

There is, so I’m told, a new off-Broadway play in New York that is called “Bad Jews.” Its plot revolves around, believe it or not, the struggle of three grandchildren for possession of their beloved ...

Some 40 prerecorded classes and source material are available, with presenters ranging from Bible scholar Avivah Zornberg to Israeli singer-songwriter Etti Ankri. JERUSALEM — Every year on Shavuot ...

“Chai,” the Hebrew word for life, is also the appropriate title of an incredible new piece of public art that’s been installed at the Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life in Palo Alto, which includes ...