Collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, FloridaChandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images Almost three days have passed since part of the Champlain Towers in Surfside, Miami, tumbled to the ...

The alleged perpetrator responsible for burning a dozen mezuzot in Brooklyn on Monday, as Jews around the world were commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day, is in custody, a law enforcement official ...

The law, which will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2020, states that “a property owner shall not enforce or adopt a restrictive covenant or any other restriction that prohibits one or more religious items ...

My mother-in-law shared that many of her friends are asking whether they should take down their mezuzot this year. In a time when so many of us feel frightened about rising antisemitism, the way in ...

Chief Rabbi David Lau issues a directive to the Israeli public to stop kissing mezuzot, the boxes containing scrolls of biblical verses that Jews traditionally hang on their doorposts, for fear of ...

Looking for the perfect gift for that upcoming wedding or bat mitzvah? If you’re in the Anaheim area, you may want to check out Downtown Disney, the new shopping ...

Mezuzot are found in virtually every Jewish home: they contain a handwritten copy of the Jewish Shema prayer, attesting to G-d's unity, and confer protection on the home. While the inside of mezuzot ...

(CN) - The 7th Circuit reinstated the federal housing discrimination claims of Jewish tenants who claimed their condo association kept removing mezuzot, or boxes containing passages from the Torah, ...

The halacha allows for freedom of contract between landlord and tenant. Sometimes, however, the parties to the lease agreement are not specific about all of its terms. The halacha will then step in ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced that it has reached a resolution with Lehigh University after concerns about the university's handling of reports ...

Observant Jews have no right under federal law to install small scrolls known as mezuzot outside the doors of their condominiums, a federal appeals court declared yesterday. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court ...

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