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Kaplan taught at the Mayanot Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, then in 1998, he and his wife moved to Thornhill, Ontario.

Bea Baldwin, 17, was raised in a multi-faith household as her father practices Judaism and her mother is Christian.

For most American Jews today, Shavuot is not exactly a big-ticket holiday. Observance lags behind springtime Passover, and it pales in comparison to Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, the fall “high holidays.”

In 1965, James Spigelman joined Charlie Perkins and 30 other students on a bus ride around New South Wales to bring attention to the extent of racial discrimination in Australia. This would go on to be known as the Freedom Ride.

Reading the Torah, there is no doubt about motherhood’s important role in Jewish literature and life.

Meet the "catches" that make up the Jewish Matchmaking cast as Netflix gains another dating series.

Several ministers and members of Israel's parliament have cancelled their participation in Memorial Day ceremonies, a day of remembrance for fallen Israeli soldiers, due to protests from some bereaved families. Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf and Deputy Culture and Sports Minister Yaakov Tessler, from the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism…

Three Jewish congregations in Pittsburgh are still waiting for justice four and a half years after the massacre that changed everything

New organisation will represent about 30% of British Jews who are affiliated to synagogues