judaism

The Trump administration has turned a spotlight on Harvard University primarily over allegations of antisemitism. Last month theWhite Housefroze $2.2 ...

HARRISBURG— Eighty years after the last Jews were liberated from Nazi camps in Europe, Pennsylvania continues to honor the survivors and lives lost du...

DEAR ABBY: At 63, I am the youngest sister of four siblings. We grew up in the turmoil of Dad’s alcoholism and hoarding, as well as physical and emoti...

This year,Christmas Dayand the first day ofHanukkahcoincided. At first glance, these celebrations have little in common, but a closer look reveals a p...

Lawmakers in more than a half-dozen U.S. states are pushing laws to define antisemitism, triggering debates about free speech and bringing complicated...

“Away in a manger, no crib for a bed, the little Lord Jesus lay down His sweet head…” This, and so many other songs of the season, share the Christmas...

Observant Jews around the world are celebrating Hanukkah, a festival of lights. It was instituted to celebrate the liberation of Israel from dominatio...

It doesn’t take long to read or listen to anti-Israel advocacy before the word “colonial” or “colonialism” is hurled at the Jewish state. After the sp...

PITTSBURGH — The man who killed 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue was formally sentenced to death Thursday, one day after a jury determined tha...

PITTSBURGH — The gunman who stormed a synagogue in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community and killed 11 worshippers will be sentenced to death for...

ELDRED — Don’t be bystanders. Be up-standers. That was the emotional and important message imparted on the crowd of more than 170 people at the Eldred...

The Texas state Senate, apparently having solved all the problems in the Lone Star State, voted the other day to require every public elementary and s...

Hanukkah commemorates events that occurred more than 2,100 years ago, but it especially is pertinent now. The Festival of Light recalls a vastly outnu...

The state of Pennsylvania is pledging $6.6 million toward redevelopment of Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, where a gunman killed 11 people in 201...

Temple Beth El will hold services for the Jewish High Holidays conducted by Rabbi Danny Schiff of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Pittsburg...

The First Wesleyan Church of Bradford has teamed up with the McCrea Brook Wesleyan Church of Eldred to hold a Seder dinner. The Seder dinner is schedu...

While Hanukkah celebrations will be held privately at homes in the Olean, N.Y., community, Jews in the Bradford community plan to hold a short service...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Jewish and Muslim grassroots groups, self-declared defenders of their faiths, have played a key role in rising Israeli-Palestinian te...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian demonstrators clashed with Israeli troops across the West Bank on Tuesday, while three tourists were lightly wo...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians clashed with Israeli riot police after barricading themselves inside a mosque at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site, t...