The congregation will celebrate its last Shabbat service on April 25 and spend the weekend recalling its historic legacy.

We are entering the last several days of Holy Week. These culminate in Jesus’s ministry and the beginning of his Passion and Death. Christians worldwide are getting ready to celebrate the Resurrection ...

A new book tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, a 19th-century British Jew who played a complicated role in the colonization ...

Once home to a thriving Jewish majority, Thessaloniki holds fragments of a lost world. One traveller's journey to find them ...

In “Darkenbloom,” by the Austrian novelist Eva Menasse, the citizens of a European border town have secrets they’d prefer to ...

We have a sense, I think, of paying a long overdue debt to these men,” Shalom Lamm, the chief historian of Operation Benjamin, told attendees about Pfc. Adolph Hanf and ...

The City of Ekurhuleni spokesperson, Zweli Dlamini blamed these issues on the recent rainfall and lack of manpower to maintain the cemetery.

A few short months later, the Silver Levy of 1939, also known as the Silberzwangsabgabe was instituted, a Nazi decree requiring German Jews to hand over their ...

In this article, Jeremy Salt chronicles the deliberate destruction of Gaza's people, history, culture, and identity.

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...