Current numbers place the Jewish community at approximately 9% of all eligible voters in Westchester. Unlike radical politicians like Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Michigan Democrat, and Ilhan Omar, Minnesota ...

A Jewish holiday when communities light bonfires and children play with bows and arrows carries a message our culture ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oct. 7 massacre and surge in antisemitism highlight the existential threat bigotry poses to Jews. Yet, paradoxically, ...

In the crowded canon of books about how to change the world, few loom as large as Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.” ...

The lessons and traditions of Purim seem especially meaningful this year. As we navigate a post-October 7 world, there is profound wisdom to be found in the ancient Scroll of Esther. Megillat Esther ...

Artist and journalist Molly Crabapple discusses the lessons she learned while writing her new book “Here Where We Live Is Our ...

The beloved 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz” featured The Wicked Witch of The West with no explanation of why she was evil, other than that a house fell on her sister. “Wicked” was a novel by Gregory ...

All that television and rap music? Your mother worries you’re not seeing enough movies. Fortunately, the 2013 Miami Jewish Film Festival kicks off on Saturday, January 26, and the schedule is more ...

Having officiated at hundreds of funerals, I am given the responsibility and honor to reflect on people’s lives. Crafting a eulogy is daunting. How can we summarize someone’s life in 20 minutes? Time ...

A school district in suburban Virginia is drawing backlash for announcing that middle school students could opt out of a talk by a Holocaust survivor on Monday. Critics of the school connected the ...

Israeli President Shimon Peres offered his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a history lesson on Thursday, saying his lack of knowledge about the region was an embarrassment. The outspoken ...