Of the things Marilyn Monroe is best known for, being Jewish is not on the list. But the impending sale of Monroe’s personal prayer book — or siddur, as it is called in Hebrew — has piqued interest in ...

The latest release of emails connected to the child sex trafficker gives a fuller picture of his Jewish networking.

Purim is meant to be loud: a holiday for drinking, dressing up, yelling and retelling a story of miraculous survival. Which ...

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

Shavuot is the Jewish holiday that celebrates the experience of receiving the 10 Commandments and the Torah at Mount Sinai. Shavuot will be celebrated Tuesday evening through Thursday afternoon in ...

I thought the need for this conversation would have disappeared. Like, a few decades ago. I cannot believe I have to say this. Again. But, here goes. The other day, I was talking to someone about a ...

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. (JTA) — During the pandemic, ...

If you’ve binged Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” with the rest of the Jewish community, you may be inspired to lean into your heritage and learn a bit more about Judaism. (Or, if you’re not Jewish, ...

A prominent cantor was dismissed from her synagogue after publishing a column titled, “Why the increasing number of converts is a problem for Judaism.” BERLIN (JTA) – Jews in Germany have been shaken ...

In a recent essay on the Jewish feminist site Alma, a young woman explained that she had converted to Judaism while maintaining her atheist beliefs. Abby Jo Morris grew up an evangelical Christian.