Émile Durkheim was a son of a son of a rabbi. This legacy traced back eight generations and he himself was in a yeshiva ...

This year the Yom HaShoah commemoration will take place at 3 p.m. April 27 at Congregation Shomrei Torah, 2600 Bennet Valley ...

Jesus foretold his death and resurrection to prepare his followers — and us — for the hope of eternal life through God’s love ...

In the final days of World War II, German grocer Fritz Niermann risked his life to shelter four Jewish girls who had escaped from a ... Niermann was later honored as “Righteous Among the Gentiles,” a ...

The editorial cartoonist also worked as a software developer creating Jewish games, humorous “biotoons” and music-generating software.The post Yaakov Kirschen’s other legacy appeared first on JNS.org.

When the frilly Easter dresses and suits start showing up on the racks at Walmart, I know it’s getting close to that time of ...

so did God use a gentile to restore the Jewish people to the promised land. The Jewish people could finally return home after being in exile for about 2000 years. The fig tree in the Bible is often ...

The casserole got me thinking about how ham is the centerpiece of an Easter Sunday meal for many Christians. This was the ...

Ben Kamon, her husband, and their four young children moved from the West Bank settlement of Eli to the southern community of ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin-American pontiff, renowned for his outspoken advocacy for the poor and insistence on a more ...

The death of Pope Francis has triggered a period of mourning in the Vatican and signals the start of a millennia-old process of picking a new pontiff.

Pope Francis, a voice for the poor who overcame fierce resistance to reshape the Catholic Church, has died on Easter Monday, ...