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A woman casts a shadow as she walks past a banner calling for the release of the hostages kidnapped during the deadly October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, December 5, 2024.

News isn't just protests and Knesset shenanigans; it's the everyday things, too

By Sivan Rahav Meir

Menorah in the window on the eighth night

How often does the first day of Hanukkah fall on Christmas?

By Zachary Smith/cleveland.com/TNS

The scorpionis also the symbol of the Egyptian goddess Serket.

Girl finds 3,500-year-old Egyptian scarab amulet during family trip in Hod Hasharon

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Pope Francis Bergoglio celebrates mass and greets the Christian faithful who arrived in their thousands in St. Peter's. Rome.

Pope Francis urges Church to welcome cohabiting couples and divorced individuals

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Schoolchildren at an elementary school.

Texas Jews are ‘deeply concerned’ about Christian material in proposed public school curriculum

By Jacob Gurvis/JTA

An illustrative photo of elephants.

'Places We Left Behind': Commitment and true love conquer all

Francesco Guardi - The Angels Appearing to Abraham.

Parashat Vayeira: Order of priorities

By RABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ

40 years later, a 'baal teshuva' looks back

By MICHAEL FREUND

STUDENTS ENGAGE in havruta study in the Pardes Beit Midrash in Jerusalem.

How can Jewish tradition help navigate differences in today's divided world?

By MONICA KLEINMAN

BABA MONDI, leader of the Bektashi sect of Albanian Muslims, could soon be the leader of the world’s newest mini state.

Religious leader of Albania: 'I consider myself a brother of the people of Israel'

By ELDAD BECK

AIMING FOR the strengthening of Israeli unity, people gather with Israeli flags at one of some 100 locations around the country, in Hispin, Golan Heights, in August.

Religious introspection in Israel comes with political challenges

By RENEE GARFINKEL

A woman is seen struggling trying to move apartments.

Diary of would-be tenants: Two journalists struggle to move to Jerusalem in harsh market

By SHIR PERETS , Yuval Barnea

A WOMAN seeking divorce in a ‘beit din’ was the sole female in the room until the advent of ‘toanot.’ (Illustrative)

New Year and finally free: Get-refuser agrees to divorce to visit religious graves

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

KIPPOT ARE on display at the Mahaneh Yehuda market in Jerusalem. ‘I and many others like me no longer feel comfortable wearing the knitted kippah, long the emblem of modern Orthodox Zionism, in public,’ says the writer.

'I want to start wearing a kippah': 13-year-old former hostage on spiritual awakening after release

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Jewish men in the street during Tikkun HaKlali near the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, on eve of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, September 15, 2023.

'He who travels puts himself at risk': Rabbi, Ukrainian officials warn of annual Uman pilgrimage

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A Star of David necklace.

Jewish radicalism differs from Islamic and Christian fundamentalism

By URI PILICHOWSKI

A MUSLIM, A JEW, a Hindu, and a Christian band together to fight the bad guys on ‘God’s Gang.’

The message of 'God's Gang': Series creator shares interfaith cartoon's meaning

By HANNAH BROWN

FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich speaks at a news conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, last week.

Smotrich's religious-economic concept: It could lead to a lost decade

By GALI INGBER