Tag: jewish

As thousands gathered Friday (Sept. 5) at Temple Beth Am in Miami to mourn journalist Steven Sotloff, they paid tribute to the one quality his family and friends tried hard to conceal from his Islamic State captors: his Jewishness.

(RNS) The military's 29 Jewish chaplains have often preferred their particular tradition's prayer book to any other's. The new prayer book attempts to remedy that.

Sometimes being Jewish feels inherently controversial. Hence the old saying: “Ask two Jews, get three opinions.”

(RNS) The leaflet begins, "Dear Ukraine citizens of Jewish nationality," and states that all people of Jewish descent over 16 years old must report to the Commissioner for Nationalities in the Donetsk Regional Administration building and "register."

On Wednesday evening members of Temple Beth Shalom and Congregation Emanu-El came together to celebrate the final night of Hanukkah.

Today the Pew Research Center released the most comprehensive survey on American Jews in more than a decade. The report found a changing Jewish identity in America, with one in five Jews (22 percent) describing themselves as having no religion.