judaism

Everyone is invited to Good Friday in the Park, a multi-denominational service starting at noon April 18 in Lincoln Park. Sponsored by the Greater Ole...

We take a moment to wish a Happy Hanukkah — the Festival of Lights — to members of the Jewish community in the area. Hanukkah began at sunset on Wedne...

Monday, with all classes being held remote, the environs of Columbia University were anything but quiet. On the South Lawn in front of Butler Library ...

This is definitely a testimony, Dear Reader. The Old Ones (Church Mothers) used to tell us youngsters that when we really want something that we’ve tr...

Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in the U.S., but there has been improvement, the staff at the Cancer Services Progra...

ALBANY — A man fired a shotgun twice outside a Jewish temple in Upstate New York on Thursday, hours before the start of Hanukkah, then said “Free Pale...

NEW YORK (TNS) — As New York law enforcement officials boost resources to houses of worship in response to the violence in Israel, Gov. Kathy Hochul a...

It doesn’t take long to read or listen to anti-Israel advocacy before the word “colonial” or “colonialism” is hurled at the Jewish state. After the sp...

Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the year according to the traditional Jewish calendar, begins at sunset today. The holiday, literally “Head of the Yea...

ELDRED, Pa. — Don’t be bystanders. Be up-standers. That was the emotional and important message imparted on the crowd of more than 170 people at the E...

The Texas state Senate, apparently having solved all the problems in the Lone Star State, voted the other day to require every public elementary and s...

This weekend the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the Second Sunday of Easter, called Divine Mercy Sunday. God’s mercy is referred to within many Chri...

ALBANY — Parents cannot be required to pull their children from private schools in New York that fail to meet state-designated standards, a judge deci...

“I believe the Palestinians and Israelis equally deserve to live safely and securely and to enjoy equal measures of freedom, prosperity and democracy,...

“I believe the Palestinians and Israelis equally deserve to live safely and securely and to enjoy equal measures of freedom, prosperity and democracy,...

OLEAN — Some congregation members of Temple B’Nai Israel had attended the synagogue all of their lives, others for a few decades and a few were relati...

The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah began as the sun set on Thursday, but we make note of it today to wish Jewish folk everywhere a special holiday season....

OLEAN — For 91 years, Jewish residents in the Olean area worshiped, celebrated and mourned together at Temple B’Nai Israel on South Barry Street. At 3...