Though Israeli import laws favor domestically-grown citrons, every 7 years growers from the high Atlas Mountains corner the market during the biblical farming sabbatical of shmita

On the eve of the third Jewish new year celebrated under the shadow of COVID-19, with war raging and a recently deceased monarch, religious leaders are shoring up their flocks

Violetta Ryabko, who moved to Israel from Russia: 'I want to contribute something good to this country'

The biblical harvest festival resonates with the agricultural collectives' largely secular residents and offers an opportunity for pageants, concerts, fairs and other celebrations

Originating with 16th-century Jewish mystics, the custom of Tikkun Leil Shavuot is now as much a part of the holiday as cheesecake. Here are some top picks for great classes in NY

Like many others, American Jews were influenced by their new home country's penchant for consumerism - but being a niche market has also helped preserve their cultural identity

An unusual array of forces have conspired to depress production in the United States, and kosher plants have suffered alongside everyone else

Melbourne-based Werdiger family donates 50,000 packages of matzah and wine that will fill the seder tables of Jews in 110 remote locations, from Namibia to Japan

The 20,000 pounds of the unleavened bread languishing in an Odesa port represents 10% of the country's annual exports to the US, and a local rabbi thinks the market will feel it

Two cantors at NY's Temple Sinai were unsure their former compatriot Olga Tabunshikova would be able to edit their holiday video from Kharkiv, but she calls the work a 'lifeline'