Every year around Chanukah I am reminded of my time spent in Sunday school and the things we would do to prepare for the ...

We grew up hearing “the kids are alright,” a reassuring message that everything is fine, even when life is complicated, a ...

My 77-year-old mother does not like stuff. She abhors clutter. She reuses everything. If you were to buy her a bottle of nice ...

As we enter the giving season, many families are beginning to think about their year-end charitable donations. This year, ...

This week’s Torah portion, Vayishlach, deposits us into the dramatic ongoing narrative of Jacob’s life, as he prepares to ...

Many of the books by local children’s author Judy Laufer (pen name J.E. Laufer) features a character facing a difficult ...

In some parts of the world, burping after a meal is practically a compliment to the chef. In others, it’s the sort of thing ...

Lost in the kerfuffle over whether the U.S. Coast Guard would no longer consider the swastika as a symbol of hate was a far more troubling development in antisemitism. The ...

More than 200 Jewish teens from Arizona, Nevada and Utah gathered at the Delta Hotels Phoenix Mesa Nov. 14–17 for the ...

Forty years ago, Becca Hornstein and Joyce Berk-Lippincott launched a grassroots effort to help their children on the autism ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is formally seeking a preemptive pardon of the criminal charges he has long faced, saying in a video address ending his prosecution was ...

This Thanksgiving, I’m thinking about Passover — and how the way we choose to remember the past can shape the present and the ...