Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo apologized to Jewish New Yorkers for lockdowns he imposed during the COVID-19 outbreak five years ago that banned large gatherings, closed schools and disrupted religious ...

The political and cultural tumults of today call to mind the words of the great Jewish intellectual Milton Himmelfarb in 1967. In the immediate aftermath of the Six-Day War—when the Jewish people ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A hymn with lyrics written by President Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is among the latest batch of songs released for the church's ...

The Department of Justice finds UCLA violated the civil rights of Jewish and Israeli students during a spring 2024 pro-Palestinian campus encampment. In a separate action, UCLA will pay $6.45 million ...

How does a President worship? Unnoticed by his aides and security guards, Harry S. Truman once slipped away to services at a church near the White House, but he was probably the last Chief Executive ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Katie Bauman, a rabbi at Touro Synagogue in New Orleans, was filled with sorrow Thursday as she sang a Jewish hymn in honor of an Israeli couple murdered in the streets of ...

(RNS) — A new documentary details a project to revamp an 1,800-year-old hymn for a modern audience. The Oxyrhynchus Hymn is the oldest surviving Christian hymn with musical notation — and was ...

The end of the year saw many losses. Former president Jimmy Carter, tabla maestro Zakir Hussain, former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh to name a few. Flower Silliman probably didn’t make those ...

At 94, Flower Sillimanwas the oldest living graduate of the Jewish Girls School of Kolkata. This November, students of the school came together to sing a hymn at her memorial service at the Maghen ...

A couple months into the Israel-Hamas war, a Fort Worth rabbi reached out to an imam to express his grief on what was happening in Israel and Gaza. But it was more than just that, said Rabbi Brian ...