Israel’s city that never sleeps was founded over Passover, 1909, during the counting of the Omer leading up to Shavuot.

Most Atlanta synagogues held a confirmation on the first day of the Shavuot holiday - unusual by then for many American ...

Initially driven by impoverished Bedouins, attacks escalated into deadly assaults on tourist hubs like Sharm el-Sheikh, Dahab ...

Israeli popular singer Yuval Raphael recently came in second in this year’s Eurovision song festival. She deserves our ...

A ballistic missile launched at Israel by the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen was successfully intercepted by air defenses, the ...

An interesting development on Jerusalem's Temple Mount could be a sign that the return of Jesus Christ may be sooner than ...

If a person is neither Jewish nor Muslim, they tend to view the Middle East in a slightly different way. They see each side ...

A missile launched by Yemen’s Ansarallah toward Ben Gurion Airport was reportedly intercepted, marking the latest in a series of strikes carried out in solidarity with Gaza. The Israeli occupation ...

So why do so many Jews barely notice Shavuot, the holiday that marks the receiving of the Torah? Many diaspora communities don’t celebrate the holiday at all. In Israel, many treat the holiday as a ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Stanley Fischer, who helped shape modern economic theory during a career that included heading the Bank ...

The word Hatikvah means “The Hope.” It is the first stanza of a poem written by Naphtali Herz Imber (1856-1909), a Jewish Hebrew-language poet from Złoczów, now called Zolochiv, Ukraine, then part of ...

Hamas wants a full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza and a permanent ceasefire, terms U.S. and Israeli officials have ...