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After more than 30 years of excavating the remains of a Philistine city, a team of archaeologists says it believes it has found a cemetery belonging to the Philistines, an ancient...

Rabbi Maurice Lamm, noted Torah scholar and author of “The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning” passed away Wednesday night at the age of 86. He was also the brother of...

This week, 50 OU member schools and synagogues were awarded Nonprofit Security Grants (NSGP) of up to $75,000 by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. These grants will be used to...

From the JTA: An 11-year-old girl was killed Tuesday morning when a tree fell on a cabin at a Jewish camp in Indiana. In the accident at Camp Livingston in Bennington,...

From the Times of Israel: LONDON — As Britain heads into the last few days of campaigning before the historic referendum on whether to stay in or leave the European Union,...

Even if the victims of a tragedy offend your religious sensibilities, you’re still not God’s designated spokesman. After being incommunicado for three days following the combination of Shabbos and Shavuos, I...

No American should be assailed for their personal identity. After the conclusion of the Jewish Sabbath and Holiday of Shavuot, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America stated its condemnation...

From the JTA: An only-in-New-York story about a public swimming pool that offered women-only swim periods for the area’s Orthodox community turned into a full-blown media firestorm when The New York Times...

Today the Orthodox Union, the nation’s largest Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization, expressed strong support for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announcement that he would issue an executive order prohibiting the state...

At the moment, the big news story is the death of Harambe, a silverback gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo. A four-year-old boy managed to get inside the gorilla enclosure. Because of...