(RNS) — The German-Jewish title with ancient roots is granted to those who exhibit significant spiritual and material leadership in their community. (RNS) — “Chaver,” an honorific with origins in ...
MADRID (JTA) — Beneath a sprawling 14th-century building with moss-furrowed terrace walls and interiors painted in garish strokes of purple and yellow lie what could be the remains of Spain’s ...
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“Epiphany of Queen Esther” by Los Angeles-based artist Shahin Dardashti (shahinart.com). This time of year, many non-Persian Jewish friends remind me that as an Iranian Jew, “my holiday” is just ...
The holiday celebrates the Israelites’ liberation from Egyptian slavery, but it continued evolving after the Neo-Babylonians conquered Jerusalem in 587 B.C. The late Middle AgesA lamb, unleavened ...
A mysterious copper scroll may not be a treasure map at all - but a secret record of one of the bloodiest revolts in ancient ...
(JTA) — In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone and ash. The catastrophe famously entombed, and preserved, the city’s villas, ...