A bill advanced by coalition lawmakers on Sunday requires public institutions to install mezuzahs and grants special protections to Jewish Orthodox religious ...

There is hardly an Orthodox Jewish community of any size in this country that does not have a day school, a Jewish high school and often a kollel of advanced scholars who are teaching and doing ...

Orthodox Christmas 2026: Commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ through ancient traditions, fasting, prayer, and midnight liturgies, rooted in the Julian calendar followed by many Eastern Orthodox ...

The start of Lent brings fasting, prayers, and almsgiving for Christians around the world, but in many Orthodox cultures, it also signals a deeper kind of cleansing, one that extends beyond the ...

There is nothing unusual about turning a corner in West Virginia's maze of rough mountain roads and seeing churches with plain white walls and big porches.

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FARGO — North Dakota’s Jewish community is trying to bring back an important part of its faith tradition with the construction of a mikvah in north Fargo, the first in nearly 75 years. A fundraising ...