News & Opinion

This ex-Israeli soccer player is fighting two cancers, but still focused on helping others

Defying the odds, Tamir Gilat has been living with pancreatic and kidney cancer for six years. On top of it all, he just lost his wife to breast cancer.

Netanyahu to meet with US Jewish leaders

The meeting reportedly will be low-key with the relationship frayed in recent months.

Trump invites Orthodox, but not Jewish groups who snubbed him, to High Holidays conference call

The Reform and Reconstructionists were not on the invitation list, and the Conservative movement said it would not take part.

Global

In the Ukrainian city of Uman, businesses and mobsters follow the Jewish pilgrims

Lifestyle

There are now Christian mezuzahs

Global

A Yom Kippur tradition in Amsterdam dates back to the invention of electricity

Global

Leftist Jewish youth groups in Rio boycott Israeli folk dance festival

United States

NY politician who proposed renaming Trump State Park gets anti-Semitic hate mail

Israel

Why Israel went wild over $1,000-plus crocodile-skin kippahs

Ideas

Conservative Judaism will thrive by focusing on meaning, not just membership

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