Tu Bishvat is not mentioned in the Bible at all. It first appears in the Mishna (around 200 CE), not as a festival but simply as a date marking the calculation of tithes for fruit trees. Over the ...

Many Jewish comedy greats got their start in the once-scrappy comedy sketch show, which celebrates its golden anniversary this weekend.

Our 46 Heads of State all had interactions with the Jewish community – positive and negative, historic and bizarre ...

Anthony Julius' biography of Abraham argues for the duality of the first Jew, with one life based in reason and another in ...

Excavators have uncovered a mysterious stone with carvings that is estimated to be almost 1,700 years old. The area is ...

The novelist John Irving is famous for telling stories set in his native New England and in Austria, the site of a pivotal ...

This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway across the globe. Some of the more well-known examples include disputes between Ukraine and Russia, Taiwan and China, and India and ...

I debated Abdullah al Andalusi from the Muslim Debate Initiative at Manchester University (UK) on the subject of “Is Anti ...

Queer Jews in Reform, Conservative and other denominations are accepted as equals. In many Orthodox Jewish settings, by contrast, including the vast Haredi world, strict adherence to Torah and Jewish ...