Originally released as a blog in 2019, this piece has been updated to reflect recent news and communal work. For all our hand-wringing generation after generation, Jewish communities seem to have ...

The recently released Pew Report on Jewish Americans confirms what has been obvious to Conservative Jewish lay leaders such as myself for years now. In contrast to the mid-20th century, when ...

The Duden dictionary had recently added an explanation to its online edition saying that “occasionally, the term Jew is perceived as discriminatory because of the memory of the National Socialist use ...

How do we define a Jew? Is a Jew someone who is born to a Jewish mother, or is a Jew defined by his/her actions? In short does the fact that we are born Jewish, identify us as Jews regardless of how ...

Boycotting Israel and calling for an end to its Jewish majority is not inherently antisemitic, according to a new definition of antisemitism released Thursday by a group of more than 200 scholars of ...

The completion of the 3,000th page of the late Eliezer Ben Yehuda’s Hebrew Thesaurus was celebrated at a small gathering of the savants and trustees engaged in preparing for publication the ...

A German dictionary entry for the word “Jew” has been changed after members of the country’s Jewish community complained that the definition was problematic. The definition offered by the Duden ...

When the sun set on November 28, Jews across the world lit two candles to observe the first night of Hanukkah (the first is called a shamash, a “helper candle” that lights all the others). But for ...

More than 200 Jewish scholars released a new definition of anti-Semitism stating that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement isn’t anti-Semitic. The scholars, under the umbrella of a ...

Hanukkah has already begun, and it will end just before Christmas. Here's what to know about the Jewish holiday ...