Jewish identity

'Angelic, full of joy': Ashdod mayor honors 27-year-old Dan Alkayim, killed in Bondi Beach attack

Alkayim's death was announced by French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot in a post to X/Twitter in the hours after the attack.

Friends and family attend the funeral of Dan Alkayim, who was murdered in a mass terrorist shooting attack on December 14, 2025 at Bondi Beach in Sydney, at a cemetery in Ashdod, southern Israel, December 25, 2025.
People attend a Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the New Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City, on December 14, 2025.

One in four Israeli Jews celebrate or consider celebrating Christmas - poll

Heroes from the Israel-Hamas War light candles on the sixth night of Hanukkah with Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana in December 2024

Hanukkah 2025: From Hellenism to today’s culture wars

Noa Tishby hosts Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis for Hanukkah candle lighting

Noa Tishby hosts Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis for Hanukkah candle lighting


Yaron Deckel to ‘Post’: Israeli education needs to focus on diaspora

More than a year ago, Yaron Deckel paused his career on Israeli television and radio and was sent as a senior Jewish Agency shliach to Canada.

 Yaron Deckel speaking during an Israel Canadian event in Canada

Future of Jewish religious freedom hangs in balance in EU -opinion

Regarding Jewish religious freedom, tolerance of belief and speech is not enough.

A Star of David necklace.

Israel is the land of miracles, compromises and status quo

Israeli society used to rely on compromises and the status quo, however in today's media reality, the idea of winners and losers is being promoted over the idea of peaceful compromises.

 A general view shows a session at the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, for the preliminary reading of a bill to dissolve the parliament, in Jerusalem, June 22, 2022.

This oleh answers the question 'Why be Jewish?' with a bottle of wine

Adam Scott Bellos: "I knew that wine was the greatest way to open up the Jewish identity conversation."

 Adam Scott Bellos, 35, From Cincinnati to Tel Aviv, 2011

Thoughts on freedom as we celebrate Passover - opinion

How do we in Israel define freedom? Perhaps the answer is found in our national anthem “Hatikvah."

JEWISH FESTIVALS are part of the national calendar. Two men in Safed dip pots into hot water to rid them of hametz.

Mosaic United, the most significant Jewish org you don't know

Mosaic United is quietly pouring millions of dollars into innovative Jewish educational programs to strengthen Jewish identity and connection to Israel in the Diaspora

 STUDENTS CELEBRATE Sukkot at Chabad at Texas  A&M University, a Mosaic United partner

How can one bring a sense of ‘Jewish peoplehood’ to Israelis?

Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai sees decline in Jewish identity and affinity with Israel as function of  weaker Jewish advocacy in the US  for the State of Israel.

 WOMEN OF THE WALL hold a prayer service at the Western Wall in Jerusalem as hundreds of ultra-Orthodox women protest

Senate and Jewish org work to give food assistance to military families

The organization, which is led by Jewish values, has done philanthropic work to assist military families regarding their lack of food.

US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) huddles on the Senate floor with Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), Senator John Hoeven (R-ND), Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Senator James Lankford (R-OK), Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and others

Jewish youth feel morality is essential to their Jewish identity

By providing youth with hands-on philanthropy experiences, we can help them mobilize their Jewish values, maximize their community impact and come together as a community to fight for change

Jewish and Arab youth playing baseball together

The fracturing of liberal Judaism over Jewish particularism - opinion

The growing inclination among liberal Jews to deemphasize Jewish distinctiveness is the gravest threat to the future of liberal Judaism.

AMERICAN RABBIS from the Reform and Conservative movements hold a group prayer near the Western Wall in Jerusalem.