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I am Jewish, but Christianity has filled my life. The earliest memory I have going to school in Arkansas involves reciting a ...

Passover has always been one of my favorite holidays. Even though we don’t get presents, like on Chanukah, or dress up in ...

A show argues that the Jewish tale was interpreted as a symbol of liberation from Spanish rule in 17th-century Dutch society.

Our deepest-held Jewish values are central to Pesach. We remember how we became a people who could make our own choices. The ...

Miriam Yarimi, also Jewish, arraigned for charges including second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide; mother ...

Like some holidays (Purim, anyone?) and in complete contrast to others (Shavuot, obviously, or Hanukkah), Passover also has ...

You, too, can own miniature versions of 15 characters who changed Scranton forever. Michael, Dwight, Jim, Pam, Ryan, Angela, Oscar, Kevin, Stanley, Kelly, Phyllis, Meredith, Creed, Toby and Darryl ...

Passover, the "holiday of freedom", is also the "holiday of Spring" in the Torah - and is "the Spring of the entire world" in the words of Rav Avraham Yitschak HaCohen Hook, Israel's first chief rabbi ...

Omer Bartov, Israeli-born, renowned scholar of the Holocaust, has said lately that the genocide of Jews in the European 1940s ...

It is about a far-right Heritage Foundation empowering a far-right Trump regime to support and encourage a far-right Israeli ...