A major tenet of liberation is having the freedom to define oneself and not be defined by others. This includes the ability ...

More than 40 members of the local Jewish community attended a Jan. 14 Mt. Lebanon commissioners meeting to comment on the township’s refusal to include a menorah as part of its annual holiday display.

Rabbi Moshe Gourarie, of the Chabad of the Jewish Center of Toms River welcomes everyone to the Manchester Menorah Lighting event. (Photo by Bob Vosseller) MANCHESTER – Hanukkah came a bit late this ...

Kotler received the menorah from his grandmother, Leah Kotler, a Holocaust survivor from Belarus. “It made me feel how important it is to connect with tradition and my Judaism,” he said.

A global commission of experts has called for a radical shift in how obesity is diagnosed, with less reliance on body mass index (BMI) to define disease. The commission, published in Lancet Diabetes ...

People with excess body fat don’t always have a BMI over 30, meaning they are not investigated for health problems associated with excess body fat. This might occur in a very tall person or in ...

Celebrate the Festival of Lights during the Hanukkah season with nightly menorah lightings on the 1200 block of Third Street Promenade (located between Santa Monica Blvd and Broadway). The lighting ...

A menorah display made of ice in Morristown was not vandalized in a bias-crime incident during Hanukkah, but rather mistakenly bumped, police clarified Saturday. On Tuesday, a local media outlet ...

Menorah during Hanukkah in new community in the Negev honoring fallen IDF Officer Col. Yonatan Steinberg (photo credit: Hashomer Hahadash) Hanukkah celebrations in Chile met opposition this year ...

Jewish members of the Kingsbrook Shul Congregation held a Menorah lighting outside the shuttered Chaim Albert Synagogue in Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center. Full Story Jewish members of the Kingsbrook ...

The City of Trees continued a local Hanukkah tradition Monday, December 30 with the lighting of a nearly 10-foot menorah outside council chambers. In recognition of the Jewish holiday’s sixth day, ...

A menorah on display in Morris Park was destroyed on the last night of Hanukkah. The menorah had been installed by the Bronx Jewish Center. A police report has been filed. News 12s Natalie ...