The killing of a Jamaican-born convert to Judaism has drawn some attention to the rare mix of race and religion.

As Yale’s chief rabbi since 1981, Rabbi James Ponet has led a very public journey, from strict observance — which counseled against intermarriages — to a more open liberalism that can permit them.

Clerics suffer from obesity, hypertension and depression at rates higher than most Americans, and are being advised to take more time off.

Three sons in the United States gain a clearer picture of how their mother evaded capture by the Nazis in Brussels, with the help of a long lost friend.

The Old World meets the new on the plates of immigrants on the Lower East Side in Jane Ziegelman’s “97 Orchard.”

Yossele Rosenblatt, known as the Jewish Caruso, died in 1933, but a Brooklyn devotee has made CDs of the cantor’s 78s without the crackles.

A man walking his dog found a gravemarker propped up against a fire hydrant in Manhattan, so he did what any self-respecting New Yorker would do: began a quest to find the deceased.

Teaneck, N.J., a diverse township, recently selected a Muslim as its new mayor and an Orthodox Jew as his deputy.

At the Hebrew Language Academy in Brooklyn, children from a variety of faiths learn a language traditionally studied and spoken by Jews.

President Mary McAleese of Ireland is coming to Temple Shearith Israel to express gratitude for donations by New York Jews during the Irish famine.