A proponent of the Iranian tradition says she can no longer imagine celebrating Hanukkah without poetry or Yalda without ...

Make certain that you do not ruin and destroy My world, for if you destroy it, there will be no one to mend it after you' ...

Chinese restaurants are a popular choice among foodies swapping the standard Christmas fare of turkey, stuffing, and mashed ...

Increasingly, though, they are publicly celebrating the range of traditions they bring to the table, making space for more ...

A historian remembers the Conservative day school in Queens as it drops the Schechter name and becomes Orthodox.

A growing number of progressive young donors — and heirs to mining, oil, and other fortunes — are reshaping their family’s ...

Melody Thieme has shared how different cultures celebrate the holiday season with her students. Among the traditions is the ...

B’nai Jeshurun Congregation in Pepper Pike will host a new Shabbat dinner series called Shabbat Around the World, showcasing ...

The next 25 years will test us. It will challenge our unity, our resilience, and our ability to adapt. But our history ...

For Rabbi Mendel Alperowitz of the Chabad Jewish Center of South Dakota, Chanukah has always been a joyous time.

The dreidel is best known as a beloved Hanukkah tradition. But it actually started as a European gambling toy, only acquiring ...

In several Jewish communities across the Mediterranean ... were all dedicated to women due to an ancient tradition that maintained that women refused to donate their belongings to create the ...