Between Hand and Scroll” offers a close look at an essential Jewish artifact. The diversity of Torah pointers creates a cross ...
The scroll of Esther seems historic, not just allegoric. It says very clearly that Haman wanted to kill and exterminate all Jews. He got permission from the Persian King to order the slaughter of all ...
In the Old Testament we can read the account of the female prophet, teacher, and leader Huldah who  played a key role in ...
In honor of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s 100th birthday, we take a deep dive into the cultural institution’s ...
With 'The Jews,' 'Daily Show' veteran Rob Kutner graduates from trying to please one curmudgeonly Jew to 14 million of them.
Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the heart of Syria's capital Damascus, carefully passing their thumbs over the handwritten text as if still in awe ...
Schiffman is a professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies focused on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Jews in the Greco ... may have been a gladiator before turning to Torah. The Babylonian Talmud says ...
A Torah scroll at Tau Kappa Epsilon’s on-campus house was vandalized ... Shemtov said it appeared the intruders purposefully targeted the Jewish text but left texts of other religions untouched. “What ...