LGBTQ+ Jews have struggled to be accepted within their Orthodox communities.

Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, starts at sundown on Wednesday, Oct. 2, and continues through the evening of Friday, Oct. 4.

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.”.

A video that shows ultra-Orthodox Jews spitting on the ground beside a procession of foreign Christian worshipers carrying a wooden cross in the holy city of Jerusalem has ignited intense outrage and a flurry of condemnation in the Holy Land.

Rosh Hashanah starts at sundown on Friday, Sept. 15

Many Jews are among the more than 2.5 million refugees leaving Ukraine.

News of Congregation Beth Israel hostages' safe escape is met with intense relief, but communities feel pain and fear over the latest in a series of antisemitic attacks and incidents in Texas and beyond.

Artem Dolgopyat fulfilled a lifelong dream of winning a gold medal for Israel, but trading gold wedding bands in Israel seems to be an impossible dream.

Israeli experts say a rickety bridge allowing access to Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site is at risk of collapse.

Her death coincided with the eve of Rosh Hashanah, a High Holiday that commemorates the Jewish New Year. Among messages honoring and remembering Justice Ginsburg, the Jewish community also noted the significance of the date of her death in Judaism. See what some mourners wrote below:According to Jewish tradition, a person who dies on Rosh Hashanah, which began tonight, is a tzaddik, a person of great righteousness. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, champion of equality, dies at 87 on Rosh Hashanah eve. Rosh Hashanah began tonight.