Painted in a folk art style with brightly colored acrylic ... that my family did,’ ” said Bryer, who comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish background. “People have feelings, and those feelings ...

The exhibits demonstrate Jewish art and heritage artifacts coming from ... The Elijah Synagogue was offered to the Ashkenazi community when their synagogues were destroyed in 1948, an arrangement ...

The new findings contradict previous assertions that Ashkenazi mitochondrial lineages originated in the Near East, or from mass conversions to Judaism in the Khazar kingdom, an empire in the north ...

When I attended Columbia University in the 1990s, my involvement as a Jewish leader revolved around my ancestral Ashkenazi culture, rooted in Yiddish-speaking Eastern Europe. I started a klezmer ...