Religion

High Holiday services are set to return this year — with a new eternal flame — to a Texas synagogue damaged in a 2021 arson

A new ner tamid, or eternal flame, has been constructed out of the burned stained glass deemed too structurally unsound to use as a window.

A Swiss university is hiring its next Jewish studies professor. Jews need not apply.

The policy at the University of Lucerne, an hour south of Zurich, has drawn scrutiny. “The Catholic Church lives in the 21st century,” said one former employee.

A West Virginia rabbi’s ‘obsession with Lego’ connects him with his changing community

“One of the gifts that this congregation has given me is they have allowed me to be me,” Rabbi Victor Urecki said.

NY congregation can evict tenants of historic Touro Synagogue, Rhode Island judge rules

Tennessee court rules couple has the right to sue state after foster care agency denied them services because they are Jewish

A Jewish banner at the 1963 March on Washington. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

How Jews are joining the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington on Shabbat

A Cruise autonomous vehicle is seen during operation in San Francisco on July 24, 2023. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Are self-driving cars kosher? San Francisco rabbis weigh in as robotaxis flood the city’s streets

2 synagogues evacuated during livestreamed Shabbat services as wave of bomb threats enters 4th week

Yeshiva University, a pillar of Orthodox Judaism, launches master’s program for Christian students

Growing egalitarian yeshiva Hadar Institute will relocate to larger Upper West Side space

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