Heli Tabibi Bareket (credit: Naama Avraham) According to Tabibi Bareket, the days of Rosh Hodesh (the first day of the Hebrew month) were all dedicated to women due to an ancient tradition that ...

As a scholar of Judaism and gender, though, I have seen how this is changing, as Jewish women reinvent meaningful traditions or develop new ones. It was an opportunity for me, as her mother, to ...

Jewish children in Demnate ... that I have written about the Jews of Iran and Arab or Muslim countries, I have highlighted the traditions of these ancient communities, especially because we ...

Religious leaders and ordinary citizens gather outside Old City as response to unrest during nationalist Flag March and to ...

They learned about powerful women in Islam, inventions of the Islamic world and the shared traditions in Abrahamic ... clergy from Muslim, Jewish and Christian faiths gathered for what was dubbed ...

“In all of our religions there is a rich tradition of recitation ... said it was “really important for Jewish women to stand alongside Christian and Muslim women and sing together for peace”.

(JTA) — In 1941 Sarajevo, a Muslim woman hid her Jewish friend from fascist roundups. Half a century later, that same Muslim woman was trapped in the besieged capital during the 1992-1995 ...