After a meatless Nine Days, the Five Towns devoured Fleishfest on Aug. 2, at the Oakwood Avenue home of Penina and David Klein. The fleisch was nice, but even better was the raising of funds for … more

When it comes to Sukkot, the weeklong festival in which Jews live and eat in temporary huts known as sukkahs, no place does it better than Jerusalem. City schools and … more

AMSTERDAM — Henny Goudeketting, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor, who was sterilized in Nazi medical experiments at Auschwitz, has neither children nor other relatives to care for her. Now, … more

Yes, there is an inside story to the Exodus, the defining moment and experience that culminated in the liberation of the Jewish people from Egyptian slavery and their open observance of the Jewish … more

Among Sephardic Jews of my grandmother’s generation, there was a popular, if unproven, belief that Gen. Francisco Franco, the military dictator who ruled Spain from 1939 until his death in … more

Hummus is a national obsession in Israel. And while your brain might automatically be thinking about those containers you buy at the supermarket, hummus in Israel is a slightly different, more … more

The World Cup fell during my one-week trip to Israel. Everywhere I went, crowds huddled around screens, people dropped their obligations, transported to the field as they followed the games. On my … more

May G-d enlarge Yefet, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem” (Bereishit 9:27). In rabbinic tradition, Yefet and Shem — two sons of Noah — represent different civilizations. … more

Israel’s Chief Rabbinate has published a list of 69 rabbinical courts it trusts on Jewish conversions. Advocates for religious reform called it a mixed bag: While happy to see transparency, … more

In one of the opening statements of his essay “The Lonely Man of Faith,” Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik writes, “The nature of the dilemma can be stated in a three-word sentence. I am lonely.” … more