Those beautiful white and gold angels you see on Christmas trees were originally monsters. At least, that is the claim made by scholar Esther Hamori in her book God’s Monsters. Hamori writes that ...

Over the centuries, the Christmas story has been re-cast and romanticized into a kind of Christian “mythology.” But what do ...

The escalation of antisemitism in the wake of the Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terror massacre in Israel has paved the way for attacks on Jewish communities around the world ...

JOBAR, Syria (AP) — In this Damascus suburb, the handful of remaining Jews in Syria can again make pilgrimages to one of the world’s oldest synagogues where people from throughout the region ...

"Jewish, Muslim, Christian, they're all here, they want to believe they have a space now..."Except they're not. In the 1940s, Syria's Jewish community was 40,000 strong. Today just an estimated 3 ...

Some Jewish stories of the last year have been impossible to miss: Israel at war, antisemitism around the world, and a US presidential election featuring Jewish politicians. Others may have ...

Australia’s Jewish community has reported thousands of antisemitic incidents in the past year, as tensions rise over Israel’s unrelenting offensive in Gaza following Hamas’ October 7 attack.

Some of the biggest rock stars in history happen to be Jewish, either by birth or conversion. Given the rich musical tradition of the Jewish people, this should hardly come as a surprise.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In a Damascus suburb, the head of Syria’s tiny Jewish community visits the newly accessible Joba synagogue ...

By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their homeland in Judaea across the Mediterranean and there were major Jewish communities in Syria, Egypt, and Greece. Practicing a ...

Even still, Lille rose again, further transforming into a draconic creature resembling cherubim, God's fair angels. Lille grows a new head, with fair hair slicked back but the face of an owl ...