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Most Israeli Jews fast on Yom Kippur, while over half take part in prayer services, survey finds

Only a small number of those reported to be fasting partially or not at all are older people, according to the survey data, suggesting that the reasons are more linked to health or principle.

A Jewish man blows a shofar at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City during the final Selichot prayers ahead of Yom Kippur, September 19, 2026.
Ashkenaz Festival, 2022 edition. Ilustrative.

Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt the Ashkenaz Jewish music and culture festival in Toronto

Yiddish music from Yad Vashem’s archives. Yiddish was the voice of Jewish life across Central and Eastern Europe for nearly a millennium until approximately five million Yiddish speakers were murdered during World War II. PremiumPremium

The Holocaust silenced millions of Yiddish voices - musicians are bringing them back

Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) people in Tel Aviv in June.

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community feels misunderstood. Here’s why - opinion


FDA approves drug for women with breast cancer caused by ‘Jewish gene’

Approximately 20 percent to 25 percent of patients with hereditary breast cancers and up to 10 percent of patients with any type of breast cancer have a BRCA mutation.

Breast cancer (illustrative photo)

Possible link found between Crohn’s and Parkinson’s among Ashkenazi Jews

This discovery could potentially help doctors develop new treatments for Crohn's which will target a particular Ashkenazi gene

Mount Sinai hospital campus in Manhattan.

How it really was: Israel’s first government vs ‘Fiddler on the Roof‘

Jews were in the forefront of modernization.

‘Tevye the Dairyman’ played by Chaim Topol in the popular 1971 film, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit, the minister of police, leaves Tel Mond Prison on November 2, 1949, before pardoning prisoners in a general amnesty

Having words, calling names

Often words that entered British English a long time ago, when some Jews were criminals and others became lords.

‘Two Gentilas’ (from a painting by Gentile Bellini)

State negotiating recognition of injustice in Yemenite children affair

PMO and Justice Ministry officials in direct talks with families of missing children, according to Kan report.

Yemenite Jews in Ma'abarot (Absorption Camp) Rosh Ha-Ayin in 1949

Harpaz admits to Galant paper forgery

Reports say suspect keeps 'changing his story.'

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Harpaz admits to Galant paper forgery

Officer maintains he acted alone and of his own accord.

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