A Russian peasant With this alternate spelling of muzhiks, Jesse Inman earned the record of the highest-scoring opening ...

Western Pennsylvania has had a lot of synagogues over the years, and so many of the most popular names for synagogue have ...

Michael Halperin, author of the Holocaust novel 'Jacob's Rescue,' also developed the 'bible' for He-Man and 'Masters of the ...

The poem by Primo Levi that begins my haggadah echoes the line in Exodus that tells us the Israelites fleeing Egypt were joined by an “erev rav” — a mixed ...

Leonard Nimoy gave Star Trek and the world one of the most iconic symbols in pop culture history from a long-lost memory as a ...

Fuchs Mizrachi School high school junior Jake Shoag, who has dyslexia, said he always found reading accurately in Hebrew a ...

Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language has been preserving a treasure trove of accents and pronunciations that are swiftly ...

The always vivid and somewhat shocking midrashim that imagine God donning tefillin or conscientiously adding decorative crowns to the Hebrew letters are matched by a similar story surrounding Passover ...

An aerial view of the former American Hebrew Academy on March 27, 2025. The federal government's lease on the property will end April 1. An aerial view of the former American Hebrew Academy on ...

The lost letters, which were returned on March 25, include family, estate and business correspondence, some dating all the way back to the 1600s. And to Borthwick's surprise, they had been taken.