After moving to a different house in his native Netherlands, Marco Schouwenaar was looking forward to lighting a large menorah on the windowsill, following the Chanukah custom of publicly advertising … more

As the rabbi who initiated the public “Festival of Lights” with a giant menorah in Johannesburg in the late 1970s, I am personally affected by the horrific hate crime perpetrated against our … more

Jewish comedian Alex Edelman’s performance of “What Are You Going to Do” on Sunday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Fort Greene hit differently than most comedy shows. It was the … more

After the terror attack at a Chanukah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach — with memories still raw from the Yom Kippur attack on worshippers at Manchester’s Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in … more

In a year when light has felt particularly precious, the festival of lights carries new meaning for those who chose to begin their lives anew in the Jewish homeland, through Nefesh B’Nefesh in cooperation with the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration … more

Tradition-busting latkes shake up Chanukah more

Celebrity narcissists looking for another virtue to signal have alighted upon a fresh cause appropriate to their moral stature: freedom for a notorious mass murderer. Some 200 high-profile … more

Does Paul Simon have a soft spot for killers? The iconic singer-songwriter last week signed a petition demanding freedom for the Palestinian Arab terrorist Marwan Barghouti, a convicted … more

Much of the Jewish state and its social-media cheerleaders in the Diaspora have been tripping over themselves to crown Dana International the new Golda Meir. The way people are gushing over her … more

L ike a stubborn stain that clings to your shirt no matter how many times you clean it, Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the ruling Labour Party in the United Kingdom, refuses to disappear. … more