Recently, a young woman who had suffered a miscarriage called Shoshana Samuels, who is a yoetzet halacha, a trained adviser in the Jewish laws of family purity. Samuels was able to answer the woman’s ...

This story originally appeared on Alma. Toward the beginning of Jenny Slate’s Netflix special “Stage Fright,” she tells the audience, “In case you’re like, ‘what weird, late-in-life bat mitzvah did I ...

looking for more to quench his cultural thirst than the typical visits to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (although with its recent multi-million dollar expansion the ...

Congratulations are in tall order for spotlight-shy Natalie Portman and her dancer-choreographer beau Benjamin Millepied. The pair, who have largely kept their relationship under wraps, reportedly wed ...

This is the second in a series of weekly guides to museums you may not have discovered. When it comes to war, sacrifice can be made impersonal by statistics. We forget that behind the numbers we know ...

Theodore Bikel Legacy Project Director Aimee Ginsburg Bikel (left) with Israeli music star David Broza (right). In the middle of the night, in grave danger, Syrian mothers bring their critically ill ...

This year, it won’t be Passover as usual. Few people will host large gatherings for Seders, instead creating smaller, more intimate celebrations with just immediate family or maybe a handful of close ...

Manchester Jewish Museum will celebrate the rich variety of Jewish music and art in a series of intimate shows hosted in its Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, which dates back to 1874. Synagogue ...