Amazon MGM Studios is building on its partnership with “The Chosen” creator Dallas Jenkins with a series centered on the Biblical figure Joseph and his time in Egypt. Jenkins is attached to executive ...

The Jewish High Holy Days, beginning Wednesday, are composed of Rosh Hashanah (The New Year) and Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement). Professor Aaron Koller — the author of an engaging and relevant book ...

A new video recording in which the late Talmudic scholar Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik speaks about baaley teshuva (Jews who become observant) has been uploaded onto YouTube by Ohr Publishing, in time ...

From the mounting death toll in the Maui wildfires to the ongoing war in Ukraine, there seems to be no shortage of pain and suffering in the world. This week’s clergy discuss how they have contended ...

Joseph Baena has a lot in common with his famous father, Arnold Schwarzenegger Emy LaCroix is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She previously worked as the ...

When we see chief rabbis, rabbinical judges, cardinals and bishops meet, between the colorful robes and the large hats, the pictures can be quite striking, and such meetings can sometimes bring about ...

Purim is a perennial holiday. The Encyclopedia Judaica lists nearly 100 different local holidays called Purim Sheni, (Second Purim,) that celebrate the miraculous rescue of that community’s Jews.

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While once reminiscing with Rav Aharon Lichtenstein zts"l, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik zts"l's son-in law, about our years in Brookline, Massachusetts, he highlighted the unique Shabbat sessions with ...

Most icons and statues of saints are, well, rather stiff. They are typically a bust or image of the saint standing still, maybe smiling slightly or gazing serenely into the distance, hands folded or ...