Pakistan has condemned the permission for public desecration of the Torah and Bible in Sweden. In a statement issued on Saturday, the Foreign Office said offensive acts of religious hatred cannot be ...

Meira Raanan is the author of The Art of Revelation: A Visual Encounter with the Jewish Bible, a commentary on the paintings of her husband, Yoram Raanan. She is also a teacher of Jewish meditation.

As always, there is a source of truth to consult: the Torah. The Torah calls one person ... He also "watered their sheep." A man, the Bible is telling us, has physical strength and the courage ...

More than 1,000 sign letter protesting boycott of Jewish authors (JNS) More than 1,000 high-profile individuals from the literary and entertainment worlds have signed a letter condemning calls ...

Simchat Torah is a day associated with memories and the day we have been dreading since last year, when rumors started to emerge from the butchery that was happening in the south, on one of the ...

14) that DNA analysis has revealed that Columbus was a Sephardic Jew. Rumors of this have been floating around the Jewish world for a long time — long enough for us to wonder: Is it true?

Rabba Sara Hurwitz speaks about the surprising reference to the sukkah in the Birkat Hamazon, the blessing after the meal during the holiday of Sukkot. The blessing says, “May God establish for ...

So, for Rabbis in the Diaspora who are currently wondering how to celebrate this Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, I'd like to make a suggestion. On October 7 our enemies had a simple objective ...

The English Forward was launched as a weekly in 1990. Its perspective on world and national news, and its unparalleled coverage of Jewish arts culture and opinion have made it the most influential ...

Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef on Monday morning echoed the words of a leading Lithuanian-haredi rabbi, instructing that yeshiva students avoid any non-Torah learning activity ...

Khamenei had posted twice to the account before it was suspended. The second post, which was made on Sunday, read, "The Zionist regime made a mistake, and erred in its calculation regarding Iran.