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When Amy Winehouse died, her family sat shiva.  For seven days following the burial, Amy's parents and older brother observed the traditional mourning period in Judaism, as friends and community members visited the home to pay their respects.

Israeli Supreme Court ruling challenges government funding for religious schools over military service evasion, impacting Netanyahu's coalition and sparkin...

Rodolfo Barra resigned as Justice Minister almost 30 years ago amid an outcry over revelations about his past

The sky was rarely darker than on a moonless night in Theresienstadt. Of the 140,000 Czech Jews imprisoned in the concentration camp-ghetto in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a quarter died of disease or starvation. The rest were carted away, murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau and other death camps in the East. Yet even in…

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

Jewish Americans critical of how Israel and the U.S. are responding to Hamas' attack say they're ostracized by the mainstream U.S. Jewish community. They worry there's no room for dissenting voices.

Singer laments the deaths of children during war, as well as the Palestinian-American child to alleged hate crime in Chicago

Rare 16th-century manuscript highlights growing ecumenicalism between former adversaries.

Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef's comments on non-kosher eating and envy of ultra-Orthodox draw criticism