A decade after the Bernie Madoff debacle — one so serious that Hadassah officials refuse to even utter the Ponzi schemer’s name — the women’s Zionist organization is … more

When burly guards working for the Jewish Community of Krakow blocked the entrance to a Chabad-run synagogue, it was the culmination of a series of clashes between the local establishment and the … more

Yeshivas unapologetically emphasize religious and ethical instruction. A small number of such schools have been accused … more

On the fields of a private-school campus in northwestern New Jersey, two girls sit on white wooden chairs in the mid-morning sun sharing stories. No one seems in a particular rush to get anywhere, … more

Adelaide “Addi” Friedman, wife of the late Rabbi Morris Friedman, who saw her son, Woodsburgh resident David Friedman, become the United States ambassador to Israel, was niftar on Aug. 4. … more

In fact Tisha B’Av, a holiday many less-observant Jews are unfamiliar with, is all about memory, the collective memory of the Jewish people. But to tap into the … more

A recently released Pew Research Center report about global restrictions on religion focuses mostly on discrimination against, and the persecution of, various religious … more

When the last Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, died in July 1994, I was one of many journalists in the Jewish media who did not see how the Hasidic movement he led … more

More than 370 New York teens participating in summer programs operated by the Orthodox Union in Israel came together last week with 2,500 teens … more

We take it for granted that the way to address the evil of anti-Semitism is to fight it. It’s a natural part of our vocabulary. We fight, we confront, we condemn, we call out. We refuse to … more