9 days ago
Israeli police have held back hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men trying to prevent a Jewish women's group from praying at a key Jerusalem holy site, a reversal of past practice.
12 days ago
An Israeli court instructed police last month to stop detaining women for performing religious rituals and wearing garb that Orthodox Judaism reserves for men.
14 days ago
Once a year, Israel's Jewish war veterans don suit jackets and uniforms dripping in Red Army medals, the shiny bronzes and silvers pinned to their chests in tight rows like armor.
61 days ago
The NFL won't move the opener to Wednesday - as it did last season - because it's the first day of Rosh Hashanah.
61 days ago
So far, there's been no progress, and Sept. 4 is not an option because it's the first night of Rosh Hashanah, Commissioner Roger Goodell says.
61 days ago
Moving the NFL game to Wednesday night is not alternative, Goodell says, because it is the first night of Rosh Hashanah.
65 days ago
Benedict's first official act as pope was a letter to Rome's Jewish community and he became the second pope in history, after John Paul, to enter a synagogue.
67 days ago
"They will have all of the elements of the Passover with the lamb and bitter herbs and it will all be explained in great detail of what it was all about," Aglio said.
67 days ago
"People understand the value of studying the Torah and we will not be abandoned.
73 days ago
The anti-Semitic thread winds back years, with an entry Grillo made in his much-followed blog shortly after Gibson made derogatory comments about Jews during his arrest for drunken driving in 2006.
88 days ago
Putin said he would consider ordering the collection be placed at the Jewish museum, which opened last year.
88 days ago
As anti-Semitism gripped Europe, many Jewish families sold their belongings or simply fled, leaving behind hundreds of thousands of empty homes and valuables up for grabs for individuals or the...
97 days ago
"It's very clear Benedict is a true friend of the Jewish people," said Rabbi David Rosen, who heads the interreligious relations office for the American Jewish Committee.
102 days ago
Israel and others countries have accused Iran and Hezbollah of carrying out attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets around the world.
110 days ago
The Board of Deputies of British Jews, which represents the roughly 265,000-strong Jewish community, said it had lodged a complaint with the country's press watchdog.
118 days ago
The New York Post (http://bit.ly/10sqhJu ) reports that Peter Madoff said a brief prayer in Hebrew and touched his lips to the Torah during Saturday's ceremony.
127 days ago
The demographic message resonates with many Jewish Israelis who - like the founding fathers of Zionism a century ago - view themselves as an ethnic group and consider Israel its nation-state.
127 days ago
The dispute began when leaders of the nearly 250-year-old Touro Synagogue agreed to sell a set of Torah finial bells from Colonial times for $7.4 million to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
128 days ago
He and his wife Judy became interested in Judaica after purchasing a group of painted tin charity containers known as tzedaka boxes in Israel.
135 days ago
And there were a few voices calling for Egypt to sincerely look at past treatment of its Jewish community - including why they left or were expelled - and whether they should have the right to...
135 days ago
He said the Jewish community in the region at the time lived largely like others in the Muslim world, as a "tolerated minority" that was treated better than under Christian rule.
138 days ago
A disagreement over the ownership of a set of 18th century Torah finial bells worth millions has led to dueling lawsuits between leaders of the nation's first Jewish congregation and the nation's...
155 days ago
"It's interesting that Israel is one of the few countries in the world where I can't be the Jew that I am," she said, a blue and white skullcap placed atop her grey curls.
171 days ago
Poland, in particular, is often criticized for failing to pass legislation that would compensate Jews for their losses in the Holocaust.
174 days ago
Jewish law forbids disturbing remains so moving the cemetery to another part of Curacao that would be less threatened by refinery smoke is out of the question, Maduro said.
