Researchers are using a very modern tool to transcribe and read hundreds of thousands of medieval manuscripts from the lost ...

Cast almost entirely of lead, the pendant is decorated on both sides with an identical image of a menorah framed within a ...

Rav Yitzchok Hutner's thoughts on the significance of the Maccabees' victory over the Greeks: 'The rekindling of the Temple ...

A 1,600-year-old Jewish bath, also known as a mikveh, was recently uncovered in Italy – and the find is the oldest of its kind in Europe. On March 10, Italian officials announced the discovery, which ...

In Proud Jewish Boy, documentarian Isri Halpern sets out to find the truth about the 17-year-old Jewish refugee who ...

This genetic burden suggests that the population was shaped by what geneticists call a founder event or a bottleneck. In other words, a small number of foremothers and forefathers contributed much of ...

Zionists draw on the military imagery of Hanukkah, while others look to the synagogue prayers that focus on the miracle of ...

Georgia's history with Jewish residents shows a complicated past. There was condemnation and rejection but also examples of interfaith leaders celebrating civic life together.

The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, letters, film and law would be ...