When it comes to the Jewish community, does size really matter? It’s not a flip question. Many observers greet the high rates of intermarriage, low birthrates and widespread alienation from Jewish ...

With American Jews experiencing rising antisemitism, particularly on college campuses, a growing number of Jewish high school ...

A new Canadian census that appears to show a significant decline in the number of Jews in Canada has experts divided over the significance of the figures. Statistics culled from Canada’s 2006 ...

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – MARCH 20: Israeli medical worker holds a swab test for coronavirus at a drive-through site during a presntation for the press before opening on March 20, 2020 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — While researching his family tree, Brian Madigan of Locust Grove, Virginia, found something strange: Although his maternal great-great-grandfather had lived in ...

(RNS) The Jewish piece of the American religious pie is not shrinking as the Christian slice is, according to a study from the Pew Research Center. Isn’t that good news for a people who—for the past ...

When members of the year-old Reform Communal Chevra Kadisha of New York complete their work preparing a Jewish body for burial, they take a few minutes to stand together around the closed coffin.

The Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo plans to build a smaller facility in the Northtowns more in line with the needs of today's aging, shrinking Jewish community. Competing synagogues that ...

Prior to the murder of 6 million Jews between 1939 and 1945, some 16,600,000 were spread throughout the world. Today’s data indicates that there are currently 14,511,000 Jews on Earth, a number ...