(RNS) — The hatreds are, oddly, the same.

We tend to remember Jewish history as a series of encounters between Jews and outsiders: Jews and Greeks, Jews and Romans, ...

Alan Brill offers both scrutiny of our doctrines and a word of correction to his fellow Jews.

The Israeli film My One and Only aims high, blending Jewish texts, mysticism, and mystery, but its unusual storytelling may ...

In a townhouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, a gathering for Tu B’Av was underway. There was chanting and breathwork, singing and ...

Rosh Chodesh Elul opens the forty-day journey that culminates in Yom Kippur, recalling the forty days Moses spent on Sinai ...

Midway through the second act of the Bayreuth Festival’s new production of Rienzi, a miniature Richard Wagner takes command of the Festspielhaus. A child painted gold and wearing the composer’s ...

Klee drew inspiration from, and was claimed by, many artistic movements, but his highly individual, syncretic style is hard to classify.

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Marla Maples also recounted how she began spontaneously reciting the Shema during a life-threatening emergency in Nigeria ...

A new exhibition in New York explores centuries of Jewish engagement with the occult – even though our biblical texts strictly forbid the practice ...