Senior citizens doing Zumba® is not something you see every day.

An outbreak of Ebola didn't stop a group from de Toledo High School from traveling to Uganda to help a Jewish community tackle the challenge of food insecurity.

Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback works with 1,600 families in his job as senior rabbi at Stephen Wise Temple.

UA Prof Killed By Gunman Who Thought He Was Jewish A University of Arizona professor was shot and killed by a gunman who allegedly thought...

The Journal reached out to several Jewish comedians and asked for their takes about the now-infamous monologue.

Complaint Filed Against Berkeley Law Over Student Groups Barring Zionist Speakers A legal complaint has been filed against UC Berkeley Law School over nine student...

Fans of basketball star Ryan Turell, the first Orthodox Jew to play for an NBA league franchise, can now display their support for the Valley Torah High School and Yeshiva University graduate by wearing merchandise emblazoned with the athlete’s signature logos.

Actress Angela Featherstone’s journey from tumult in Foster Care to success in Hollywood and now to founding a healing school began with simple invitations to Shabbat and Shul by members of the Jewish community.

Over the course of a Scholar-in-Residence weekend in Los Angeles, Rabbi Steven Weil, CEO of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF), spoke at...

With her shop and company, Chana hopes to dispel the myths about Judaism and sex and spread a positive message instead. 

Ben Elterman has always been a multitasker.

What if you could bring the world together with a needle and thread? 

Yeshiva University (YU), together with the Cardozo School of Law, will create The Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice at Cardozo Law supported by a $15 million gift from Isaac and Laura Perlmutter and the Perlmutter Foundation, it was announced by Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, president of YU and Melanie Leslie, Cardozo Law dean.

Lake Balboa, the Van Nuys-adjacent neighborhood, isn’t exactly a thriving Jewish community … yet.

UCLA’s Aomar Boum has spent 22 years championing interfaith familiarity and amity

David Schwimmer, the famed “Friends” actor, told a crowd of more than 2,000 at the Anti-Defamation League’s summit on Antisemitism and Hate on Thursday...

Over the course of a Scholar-in-Residence weekend in Los Angeles on Nov. 4 thru 6, Rabbi Steven Weil, CEO of Friends of the Israel...

Yeshiva University (YU), together with the Cardozo School of Law, will create The Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice at Cardozo Law supported by a...

“From the River to the Sea” Sign at Northwestern University A sign saying “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free” was found...

On Aug. 7, 2020, Rabbi Adin Even-Israel (Steinsaltz) passed away in Jerusalem at the age of 83. But the Steinsaltz Center that he opened...

When Rabbi Dovid Gurevich was coming of age in Ukraine in the 1980s, he didn’t have many Jewish experiences.

On a chilly Thursday morning, a German-made World War II-era freight car, one that could have been used to transport victims of the Holocaust to Auschwitz, arrived at the Reagan Library.

When Mikvah Esther opened its doors in 1976, the board of directors at the LA Mikvah Society wanted to provide a community mikvah in Pico-Robertson, which was becoming a hub of Jewish life in LA.

With over half of the ballots left to be counted, there is still no winner in the race to be Mayor of Los Angeles. The...

Take a look at Hen Mazzig’s Instagram bio and you’ll get a taste of who he is: “I love being Jewish 10x more than anyone hates me for it. Son of Amazigh+Iraqi refugees.”

The 50-year partnership between Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) and the University of Southern California (USC) has been renewed for the next 25 years. 

Case Western Reserve University to Hold BDS Resolution Vote Case Western Reserve University’s Undergraduate Student Government (USG) will be holding a vote on a boycott,...

When Rabbi David Block was younger, he took a strong interest in his synagogue, Young Israel of West Hempstead in New York.

“This is like a breaking point,” said Nicole Avant, who served as U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas under Barack Obama and is the wife...

On November 20, Joe Alexander celebrates his 100th birthday.