At a recent film screening on end-of-life care centering a Jewish family’s experience—a topic I was drawn to because of my volunteer work with Jewish burial societies—I encountered an all-too-familiar ...

He has published two books, including the bestseller "A Brief History of Yahweh". His new book, "When We Became Jews", questions some fundamental facts about the birth of religions.

The American comics industry was largely started by the children of Jewish immigrants. Like most publishing in the early 20th ...

Purim, therefore, is the prototype for Jewish survival during exile. The Divine Providence hidden in apparently random events ...

The course relies on and draws from Jewish studies, religious studies and the study of history. The students explore aspects of Judaism and Jewish history with an emphasis on rabbinic literature.

Archaeologists excavating Ostia Antica, the ancient port city of Rome, have unearthed what is now considered the oldest ...

New radiocarbon dating at grand Huqoq sanctuary near Tiberias puts its construction after the empire embraced Christianity, ...

Nuance is in order regarding Poland and its Jews; Jennifer Stark-Blumenthal calls for a reevaluation of Jews’ attitudes ...

The Arab claim to the land is founded on having lived there for a thousand years; the Jews’ is based on their historical connection to the land, present bond and religious faith explains Norman ...

Jewish Studies is by its nature interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, so UVM offers courses in religion, history, classics, literature (English, French, German, and Italian), Hebrew, sociology, and ...

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical ...