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A person dressed as a dreidel performs during the National Menorah Lighting ceremony, on the Ellipse south of the White House December 7, 2023 in Washington, DC (Drew Angerer / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
June 10, 2025, 8:01 am
1.8 million fewer: Global study of world religions slashes estimate on number of US Jews
Counting those who identify as Jewish due to ‘ethnicity, culture or family background,’ Pew study posits figure of 5.7 million, far below previous assessments
By Grace Gilson
Screen capture from video of the short film 'Sevap/Mitzvah' (A Good Deed). (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 26, 2024, 3:27 pm
Sarajevo film premiere spotlights rare Muslim-Jewish harmony
‘Sevap/Mitzvah’ tells true story of Muslim woman who hid a Jewish family in WWII Nazi-occupied Sarajevo and was then saved by a Jewish family from besieged Bosnian capital in 1990s
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Mia Khalifa arrives at the 2022 Latin American Music Awards at Michelob ULTRA Arena on April 21, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Greg Doherty / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
January 17, 2024, 12:53 pm
Jewish woman confronts pro-Hamas porn star Mia Khalifa
Lebanese-American adult actress posts video of incident on social media, accuses woman accompanied by son of following her and using slurs
By ToI Staff
Rachel Brosnahan attends the premiere of Prime Video's 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' season five at The Standard, High Line on April 11, 2023, in New York. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
January 13, 2024, 10:47 am
Mrs. Maisel, Fleishman, Jewish actors shine among Emmy nominees
Monday’s award show, long-delayed by Hollywood actors’ and writers’ strikes, gives ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ a final shot at Emmy gold
By Andrew Lapin
Jews praying for forgivness (Selichot) in the lead up to Rosh Hashana, at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, early on September 15, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
September 15, 2023, 8:38 am
Global Jewish population hits 15.7 million ahead of new year, 46% of them in Israel
Data released by Jewish Agency on eve of Rosh Hashanah shows number of Jews worldwide grew by 100,000 over past year
By ToI Staff
People shop at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market on September 25, 2022, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 25, 2022, 1:57 pm
Israel’s Jewish population passes 7 million on eve of Rosh Hashanah
Jewish state now accounts for 46.2% of the 15.2 million Jews worldwide; the global figure rises to 25.5 million when counting those eligible for Law of Return
By ToI Staff
From left: Sammi Rotibi as 'Nate' and John Berchtold as 'Isaac' in 'The Forbidden Wish' (Underdog Overkill Productions)
May 4, 2021, 3:42 am
Convinced he’s dead, a young man asks a rabbi to recite mourner’s prayer for him
Michael Carnick writes and directs ‘The Forbidden Wish,’ an intense encounter between an Ethiopian-Israeli rabbi and a US Jew who talk racism, faith and the meaning of life
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Jewish men pray while social distancing outside a closed synagogue in the coastal city of Netanya, April 23, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)
May 15, 2020, 11:32 pm
Update: How COVID-19 is hitting Jewish communities around the world
While Israel has fared fairly well during the pandemic, Jews in Britain, New York area have suffered significantly high death tolls from the virus
By Uriel Heilman
A Jewish character speaking a Hebrew monologue in Saudi Ramadan production 'Umm Haroun' about Kuwaiti Jews, in an episode broadcast April 24, 2020, on the MBC network. (Screenshot: Twitter)
April 27, 2020, 12:36 pm
In first, Saudi TV dramas feature character urging Israel ties, Hebrew monologue
Controversy swirls around two Ramadan productions, screened amid warming Jerusalem-Riyadh ties; 13 Palestinian groups said urging that one of the shows be taken off air
By Michael Bachner
A large crowd of Orthodox Jewish men stand at MetLife stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, August 1, 2012, during the celebration of Siyum HaShas. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
April 19, 2020, 3:34 pm
Number of Jews worldwide nears 1925’s level, but still far short of pre-WWII
Central Bureau of Statistics says there were 14.7 million Jews at end of 2018, in figures released ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day; in 1939, there were 16.6 million
By ToI Staff
Photographer John Offenbach in front of one of his subjects at his London Jewish Museum exhibition, 'Jew.' (Courtesy)
November 23, 2019, 7:32 am
Wild, colorful, book of portraits shatters all stereotypes of who is a Jew
Catch an Argentinian-Jewish cowboy, a murderer, tattooed Jews and more in ‘Jew,’ by John Offenbach, the center of a new exhibit at London’s Jewish Museum through April
By Jenni Frazer
Illustration of American sociologist Steven M. Cohen (Charles Dunst/JTA)
August 5, 2018, 8:28 pm
The fall of a top US sociologist could change the field of counting Jews
As Steven M. Cohen steps away from his research due to sex harassment allegations, what impact will the absence of his work and analysis have on the Jewish world?
By Ben Sales
Yoseif Bloch
October 6, 2017, 5:31 pm
Yoseif Bloch
Kol Yisrael aravot
No matter how great you think you are, the humble willow branch does a fine job representing all Jews before God
Donniel Hartman
July 6, 2017, 2:37 pm
Donniel Hartman
Mr. Netanyahu, you divide our people
Israel must break the Orthodox monopoly on religion to live up to its claim of being home for all Jews
Francine Klagsbrun
April 5, 2017, 3:26 pm
Francine Klagsbrun
Is the Passover story all a fake?
The founding story of the Jewish people transcends history, instilling national responsibility for each other and God
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