Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Jewish Democratic Council of America in May 2023. Jewish voters are reliably Democratic, but even a minor shift could affect results. MANDEL NGAN/Getty ...

Ziva Mann remembers how joyful and smiley her daughter was as a child — the family even gave her the nickname “Giggles.” “She was just sunshine,” Mann said. That changed around second grade, when her ...

Ziva Mann, mother of a transgender child and member of a welcoming synagogue, poses in her garden, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, in Newton, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) Ziva Mann remembers how joyful ...

Congregations who gather only a few times a week have had to seek out creative solutions in a sky-high market, leading to ...

Sukkot, a week-long Jewish holiday celebrating the traditional gathering of the harvest, is getting underway. It continues ...

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JERUSALEM (RNS) — In 2019, Sarah Segal-Katz was one of six Orthodox Jewish women who petitioned Israel’s High Court of Justice for the right to take the same accreditation exams the Chief Rabbinate ...