Its destruction revealed a mural — covered by renovations and completely forgotten— that seems to illustrate Jews wandering the desert with their Torah. Photo by Patrick Wright It’s true ...

Vandals on Sunday night broke into a synagogue located in a public bomb shelter on Bat yam's David Remez Street, throwing a Torah scroll on the floor and stepping on it. The vandals used electric ...

A Torah scroll dedication ceremony was held this week in Otniel in honor of the town's fallen. The synagogue is named after Elhanan Kalmanson, who was killed in action during the October 7th ...

Flames were already attacking the campus of Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center when the cantor, Ruth Berman Harris, and three companions rushed in to rescue its sacred Torah scrolls. Physically ...

Nov. 25, 2024 — A new study reveals significant progress in the global fight against HIV/AIDS, alongside a stark warning that current trends indicate the world is not on track to meet the ...

Rabbi Mendy Piekarski and Rabbi Dovid Weiss join Katy Tur to share their experience evacuating from the California wildfires and to discuss how they are still going to have services to help their ...

A man walks in front of the burning Altadena Community Church, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in the downtown Altadena section of Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) ...

After ensuring that the students were sent home safely, the next priority was the protection of the center’s two Torah scrolls, one of which had been brought over from Europe by a family after ...

The Trump administration’s pause on distributing foreign aid and domestic grants has spurred confusion among global health and HIV/AIDS experts, leaving them to wonder how and when HIV/AIDS ...

Isska in a photo for Paster’s Washington Post article. Photo by Heidi Paster This sparked the creation of Torah Tropical, a documentary that follows a family of Colombian converts to Orthodox ...

The U.S. spent less on foreign aid in 2023 than it did the year prior – but it still allocated more cash, adjusting for inflation, than at any other time since the 1950s, according to data ...

The extent of the impacts of the Trump administration’s sudden 90-day freeze of almost all foreign aid is still unclear almost a week on, as officials and aid workers overseas try to make sense ...