What did Jesus actually drink? Was it wine, water, or something else entirely? In first-century Judea, the options were ...

What do you do on Dec. 25 if you don’t celebrate Christmas? For Jewish Americans, the answers range from takeout to filling a ...

Living in a culture that largely closes down each Dec. 25, many Jews have found ways of making meaning in the day – be that ...

Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the ...

It’s a win-win recipe: schoolchildren eat a free, nutritious meal every day and local farmers gain reliable access to local ...

In the midst of the busyness that tends to arrive with the holiday season, volunteers from two local churches joined efforts ...

What emerges in “Christmas in the Yiddish Tradition” is not a sentimental argument for reviving a lost holiday, nor a polemic ...

At least three local nonprofits — Temple Edat Elohim in Thousand Oaks, Samaritan Center in Simi Valley and Many Meals in ...

On the second floor of a cultural center at Christ Cathedral in Orange County, an AI-rendered depiction of Jesus, calm and ...

Anna Ornstein, an Auschwitz survivor, wanted to change the way her field thought about those who endured the concentration ...

When his family moved from West to East Oakland, Calif., young D’Wayne Wiggins had to make new friends amid a tsunami of ...

Since Justin Carlile became the director of Partners Inland Northwest in 2021, he has seen the number of people grabbing food off their shelves skyrocket. “When I first started, we were roughly ...