The Bay Area-based org's focus was IVF grants, but its founder also offered pastoral care and created resources for rabbis to ...

The Holocaust Torah is on what the Memorial Scrolls Trust calls a "permanent loan." That means it will remain at Temple Or ...

None hurt as 3 bombs explode on empty buses in Tel Aviv area, 2 others disabled * Israel: PIJ murdered Oded Lifshitz in ...

In a unique course this spring, Yiddish scholar Leyzer Burko will explore the rich dialect of Ukrainian-Yiddish, once widely spoken not just in Ukraine, but in Romania, Moldova and Poland.

Clips and stills from atrocities don’t help. Being obsessed with how terrible the news can be doesn’t help the victims and doesn’t help us. No, you’re not cruel or a monster when you look away.

Two newly ordained Renewal rabbis from Oakland are bolstering the movement’s 50-year-old legacy in the East Bay.

An Argentine official announced on Wednesday that the country would declare a day of mourning for Shiri Bibas and her two ...

JFI Winterfest gets bookish. Plus: heavy metal horror, Bay Area graffiti at Balboa; Tehran meets Winnipeg at Roxie ...

Chen, in exchange for 369 Palestinian prisoners and detainees from the Israeli side. Sagui's wife was seven months pregnant when he was abducted and taken to Gaza Strip. He was released after 498 days ...

Growing anger over the Israeli government’s failure to bring home some 250 hostages sooner could step up pressure on Prime ...

The fate of Ariel and Kfir Bibas, just 4 years old and 9 months old when they were abducted by Hamas, brings a tragic measure ...

Yarden Bibas was freed on Feb. 1, but his wife and children were not. Hamas has claimed that they died following the family’s ...