Subheader: The inn served travelers between Tiberias and Sepphoris and was significant enough to be mentioned in the Talmud, ...

A phrase said by a 19th century Dutch painter sums up Israel today.

The different target audiences led to the siddurim being printed in two versions: while the siddurim for olim from the Soviet Union contained the Israeli national prayers, those sent through various c ...

If even the Bible, through the story of Shulamit, can celebrate eroticism, why is our modern society so terrified of it?

When Oleg Rostovtsev hovered between life and death after a serious operation last April, he asked friends and family to do ...

Two U.S. Hispanists argue a Toledo family persecuted by the Inquisition hold the key to the mystery of the most widely ...

The thought in mainstream Christianity that we are all “sinners“ is a fascinating one to me. I understand where the idea originates, but I am disturbed that the value and orientation of it shifted ...

In an effort to beat his competitors – both in the print and book sales business – Chinsky joined others in 1901 to found the Hebrew Publishing Company, the largest and oldest Jewish New York-base ...

One of the approved Stamford schools is OLAM Public Charter School, run by Hebrew Public, which operates two schools in Brooklyn, one in Staten Island and another in Philadelphia. If it opens in ...

There’s an old proverb from Roman poet Quintus Ennius: a friend in need, is a friend indeed. Then there’s Vince Vaughn’s line from The Wedding Crashers: “A friend in need is a pest.” ...

But Kafka was proficient in other languages, too, including Hebrew — a fact that some scholars point to when making the case that his Jewishness played a large role in his creative life.