As long as Jews have been Jews, from God’s call to Abraham in Genesis chapter 12, our identity has been measured by way of ...

Priesthoods belong to settled cultures. They mark agricultural surplus, centralized administration and social hierarchy.

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A Tennessee man who fired a gun at a contractor outside his former Jewish school in Memphis in 2023 has pleaded guilty. The ...

While the joyous holiday is often embodied by the eight-slotted menorah and the nightly lighting of colorful candles ...

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight ...

As the holiday season approaches, faith leaders in the Sonoma Valley are inviting their communities to embrace the spiritual and cultural traditions that define Hanukkah, Advent, and Christmas. From ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...

Once a highly influential Jewish hub on Central Asia's Silk Road, the urban center is now home to just several hundred Jews, ...

RECORD talks to New Affiliates cofounders Jaffer Kolb and Ivi Diamantopoulou about their transformation of the museum's third ...

The cultural memory of the Holocaust and the enormity of its legacy on Jewish descendants has been probed with considerably ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each parent’s and child’s personality, needs, and circumstance vary so widely.