From the start, odds were against Vika Bekker becoming a committed Jew. Growing up in a non-religious home in Buffalo Grove, a small town a half-hour outside of Chicago, she became attracted to ...

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. I grew up speaking Russian ...

Or is Israel just extending its sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria? What’s the difference between annexation and sovereignty? Annexing implies something is being taken from an established ...

Josh Radnor, star of the hit CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, unpacked his interest in spirituality and his journey to his career in theater in front of a full Statler Auditorium Wednesday night.

The character of Superman was created in 1938 by two Jewish artists, writer Jerome “Jerry” Siegel and artist Joe Shuster. Much has been written, in the nine decades since, about the Jewish subtext of ...