Yom Kippur, widely regarded as the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, is observed just over a week after the Jewish New Year ...

Eddie Lipsman could barely contain his metal detector when he passed by a large stone in the Sussita National Park in ...

After the Guardian reported on Sunday that hundreds of Northwestern University students were being blocked from classes after ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Rabbi Sharon Brous of IKAR, a congregation in Los Angeles, about her message this year during the Yom Kippur holiday.

“I’m just a cultural Jew,” I would tell people, knowing nothing about Jewish culture.

In an 1882-84 census conducted by the Ottoman government, Jews accounted for about 48,000, or 56%, of the city’s 85,000 ...

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the most holy day of the Jewish year. It's the most important holiday, the "Sabbath of ...

Jill Joshowitz has been studying the paintings for years. Earlier this month, she saw them in person for the first time.

For two thousand years, Mary—the mother of Jesus—has been honored in cathedrals, hymns, and paintings as the Virgin Mother of God. From Michelangelo’sPietàto the gilded mos ...

From Roman renaming of Judaea as Syria Palaestina to the UN Partition Plan of 1947, this 2,000-year timeline traces the ...

The Jewish community had a long-established quasi-government, the Jewish Agency. The British constituted the official government of the Mandate under the treaties that ended World War I and backed by ...