(RNS) — One of the most common ways of dismissing someone is to say: “Take a hike.” No one told me to do so, but nevertheless, I recently took a hike in the wilds of Whitefish, Montana, where I have ...

Over its 140-year history, AKSE has called four different buildings home—a former church (1898-1907), two buildings ...

Years ago, Rabbi Sara B. Arias was showing Camp Alonim’s Israeli delegation around American Jewish University’s Brandeis-Bardin Campus in Simi Valley when she asked the young visitors what the ...

When Hurricane Helene struck Asheville, North Carolina, in September 2024, the historic River Arts District was devastated. The French Broad River overflowed, destroying nearly 80% of the studios, ...

Until recently, this city located near the Arctic Circle was one of the few places in Europe where organized Jewish life did ...

Bret Stephens’s recent “State of World Jewry” address at 92NY resonated with many Jews. We are in a scary time, he acknowledged. Antisemitism is rising openly and shamelessly on campuses, online, in ...

I first joined a Jewish burial society, known as a chevra kadisha, as a college student. At the time, I had recently converted to Judaism, and the work — preparing the dead for burial according to ...

The transition from not being Jewish to feeling and thinking Jewish is a gradual one. In Islam and Christianity God comes first. The proclamation that “Allah is God and Muhammad is his Prophet” makes ...

Reykjavik that once held a pub now serves as the city's first permanent center of Jewish life - and is in the running for ...