In 1939, the synagogue was bombed by a Hungarian pro-Nazi party, and between 1944 and 1945, Dohány Street itself constituted the border of Budapest's Jewish ghetto. Visit the adjacent Hungarian ...

Whether or not it is proper to go by one’s English name is not a question that can be answered in a vacuum. Whatever the case, I would strongly recommend choosing names that express high and traditi ...

The ceremony will take place on Wednesday, February 19, at 10 a.m., at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, 132 Kedem Street, Jaffa. All the inspiring and pioneering honorees have played a ...

The author made a few bucks donating sperm back in the day. Thirty years later, there was a phone call. Then another one.

Amid the rising antisemitism worldwide and especially in Europe, the fourth cycle of the “Rabbinical Reserve of Europe” ...

Yet another asylum seeker has just launched a deranged attack out of nowhere on innocent members of the public.

After the Nazis came to power, Schoenberg emigrated to the United States. On his way there, in 1933, he underwent a rite of ...

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For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the ...

Syria's tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades Wednesday, in a synagogue in Damascus's Old ...

Syria's tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades on Feb. 19, in a synagogue in Damascus's Old City, expressing joy at the long-awaited return to public worship.

For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry returned to a synagogue in the heart of Syria's ...