but especially as a focus of Jewish family activity, including gift-giving. The most accepted theory about this has to do with the pressures of immigrant assimilation into American society (and it ...

predicted the chaos raging here today and revealed how messianic rabbis recruit students. His father, Holocaust survivor Michael Nehorai, was a professor of Jewish philosophy and student of Rav Av ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. 2 Macc is not a sequel ... 1 Macc narrates the struggle of the Jewish people against the political and cultural influence of the ...

First, I am now living in South Carolina, a state smack in the middle of the Bible Belt ... Most of her friends have never met a Jewish family before and get confused when they realize that ...

Over the centuries, the Christmas story has been re-cast and romanticized into a kind of Christian “mythology.” But what do ...

Jason Friedman documents the Cohen family, who owned slaves and fought on the Confederate side in the Civil War.

Penn State University Associate Professor Tobias Brinkmann, an expert on the history of Jewish migration, will give two ...

Those books on the market were the centerpiece of a fundraiser for the Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven (JHS), billed ... and graduate), genealogical researchers, and family members ...

About the Author Sharona holds a BA in Judaic Studies from Stern College and an MS in Jewish Education from Azrieli Graduate School, Yeshiva University. Sharona was the first Congregational Intern ...

I threw a few documents, clothes and photo albums in a pile on the living room floor, and on top of those I placed these Jewish family heirlooms in a Trader Joe’s paper bag. I haven’t needed ...

The Board of Education is suing a Jewish family to claw back tuition for their 7-year-old autistic child (Board of Education v. E.L.). Under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ...