Following comments made by Pope Francis during a teaching before a general audience at the Vatican, Israel's top Jewish leaders issued a letter expressing concern over potentially anti-Jewish comments ...

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A decade ago, I was in Israel with an evangelical tour group researching a book about American Christians when I met Carlie, a young woman who introduced herself to the group as Jewish. I was curious ...

For Amy Guenther, the shift to Torah observance was swift and unexpected. About a decade ago, one of her friends started creating Facebook posts suggesting that Christians should be keeping the laws ...

”“Israel protests as Sweden allows Torah burning outside embassy on Saturday.” Israeli officials protested to Sweden on Friday after local police gave the go-ahead to a request to allow the burning of ...

Simchat Torah is about more than beginning to read the Torah all over again. It’s about the need to reexamine what we think we know, over and over again. The Jewish holiday known as Simchat Torah, ...

The Codex Sassoon, believed to date from the late 9th or early 10th century, was bought at Sotheby’s by the American Friends of the ANU — Museum of the Jewish People. By Jennifer Schuessler The oldest ...