With multiple branches around the world, it is one of the preeminent centers for the research and preservation of the history ...

The program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...

The "Primary History" is the scholarly term for the biblical narrative spanning Genesis through Kings, created largely through the combination of pre-existing texts and traditions. This narrative has ...

One of the curiosities in “The Story of Hebrew” by Lewis Glinert (Princeton University Press) is that the author manages to write a history of the Hebrew language without using a single Hebrew letter ...

The digital venture, called Diarna, takes you back to painstakingly revived synagogues and destinations once lost to history Dara Horn On a narrow street in Damascus, one of the oldest cities in the ...

Over 300 years ago, King Louis XIV of France asked Blaise Pascal the great Christian philosopher, to give him proof of God. Pascal answered, “Why the Jews, your Majesty, the Jews!” That the Jewish ...

Though no Jews live there today, the African territory has a history of Jewish merchants, and a tribal clan with a crypto-Jew ...