Omar Alansari, President of Qatar University, announced plans to introduce Hebrew language courses at the institution. The decision carries particular weight. Qatar maintains no formal diplomatic ...

Providence Mayor Brett Smiley and former U.S. Rep. David Cicilline are among 13 adults celebrating late-in-life bar and bat mitzvahs.

There is a Hebrew word for “squeezed,” sachut, which also means “being played.” In Jerusalem, after more than a week of the ...

SU’s Salaam Shalom is an interfaith language program that gathers students — regardless of faith — to study Hebrew and Arabic ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — One grew up in rural Haiti amid the poverty and violence of his beautiful but troubled Caribbean ...

Across the country, women are sustaining families, communities, and institutions while living with the uncertainty of ...

By Steve RabeyReligion Correspondent For a century, American Jews have had an outsized role in American comedy. From Groucho Marx to Jerry Seinfeld, Jackie Mason to Jon Stewart, Joan Rivers to Gilda ...

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Thursday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his “courageous words” delivered in ...

Michael Alexander Shapira, who is of Romanian Jewish and African American heritage, faced pressure from teammates over his ...

Tel Aviv University delays opening until after Passover on April 12, to help reservists unable to get back to school, but ...

After teaching first grade for 43 years at the Hebrew Academy in Long Beach before retiring, and raising a family of seven children and many grandchildren, Rabbi Moishe Y. Engel did something new this ...