In the remarkably rich and highly readable volume, these scholars present a diverse array of traditional opinions regarding ...

Out of all the scripture and poetry and midrash that fills Jewish history, all the mysticism and folktales, all the prophecy ...

But here, in this context, we have Mikhail Goldis: a Jew in a position of (somewhat) power. We learn, consequently, what it ...

A Brit discovers her great-grandfather played a significant role in a plan that sent 10,000 Russian Jews to Galveston, Texas.

How Omer Shem Tov, who was 20 years old and not particularly religious when taken hostage, survived 505 days in captivity.

After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the ...

Harry Freedman's new biography about Bob Dylan's Jewish identity leans heavily on conjecture but also shows flashes of ...

Harry Freedman tries to show the impact Bob Dylan's Jewish heritage had on his early career in “Bob Dylan: Jewish Roots, ...

The 14th-century Shem Tov Bible is now being exhibited at the National Library of Israel, a year after a family bought it for ...

Instead, we should instead have faith and trust in the ability of religiously inspired humans to transform our world into a Messianic Age of justice and peace. Indeed, there is a view, espoused by the ...

The founding president of the Yiddish Book Center is retiring, confident that Yiddish literature has a future.

The Feast of Holy Pentecost is celebrated each year on the fiftieth day after the Great and Holy Feast of Pascha (Easter) and ...