The “Yes You Can” driving school is no more, but the sign that still hangs over its former storefront in Central Harlem is ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. (JTA) — When ...

A century after the famed composer wed Ellin Mackay, a Catholic heiress, their marriage offers a window into how Jewish ...

This valuable new Judaica reference offers almost 4,000 brief biographies of people who have significantly contributed to Jewish life. Cohn-Sherbock, a rabbi and professor of Jewish theology at the ...

Yale University Press has launched a new series of biographies called Jewish Lives, in collaboration with the Leon D. Black Foundation. The publisher is calling the books “interpretive biographies,” ...

I write these words after far too many tears shed together with bereaved families-families placed in painful and often ...

If you’ve been wondering about whether to join a synagogue, or where to find a good kosher restaurant, or how to attend ...

Throughout the days of Chanukah, more than 20 Chanukah events were held in cities and towns across Moldova, including public ...

Yet this framing itself is mistaken. God did not ask the Jewish people to choose between faithfulness and responsibility, ...

When Estonia's Chief Rabbi Shmuel Kot first proposed a new synagogue, members asked why it was needed. They pointed out the ...

Friedan’s Jewish identity at first took a backseat to her battle for women’s rights but eventually found a stage at the center of her public life, a new biography shows. (JTA) — When Betty Friedan ...

When Betty Friedan published “The Feminine Mystique” in 1963, she set fire to a simmering discontent among millions of American women, blowing up the myth that feminine fulfillment began and ended ...