Israel, my homeland, was built by people who came together from all over the world to escape ruthless persecution, and for nearly 75 years, it has enjoyed prosperity beyond our ancestors’ wildest ...

In 1975 a California teenager made the decision to immigrate to Israel and help establish a kibbutz in the country’s southern borderlands. The desert drew Ranen Omer-Sherman, he says, with a ...

Members of the Brotherhood of Temple Beth El in Aptos worked together Sunday morning to build a sukkah, a temporary hut used on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot that commemorates the Israelites’ 40 years ...

There are profound parallels between today’s homelessness epidemic and the seven-day Jewish holiday of Sukkot and recalls the ancient Israelites’ 40 years of wandering in the desert. We observe the ...

Read this article in Yiddish. One of the hardest things for me to get used to during this pandemic has been not being able to go to shul on shabbos or to have friends and fellow synagogue members over ...

An archaeological expedition, under the leadership of Abraham Dotan, deputy director of the Israel Department of Antiquities, left for Sinai today. The expedition will search for the site of the ...

(RNS) — As we wrap up this year’s celebration of Sukkot, I’d like to give this relatively unknown holiday its due. In most of the modern Jewish world, Sukkot is the anticlimactic finale of the High ...