John Efron digests centuries of German Jewish history, including medieval meat markets and a Nazi era obsession with kosher ...

For all living things, birth is our introduction to the world. So it’s a fitting theme for the first exhibit in the Museum at Eldridge Street’s new initiative, “Opening Doors to Intercultural ...

David Shneer is a one-man dynamo when it’s come to bringing into focus the divergent cultural wings of the Jewish diaspora locally, in the past as a professor and director of the Center for Judaic ...

The program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...

The holiday season heralds the arrival of Hanukkah, the eight-day Festival of Lights. Even in the most challenging times, Hanukkah is meant to be celebrated and cheered—in fact, it’s considered a ...

(RNS) — One academic's determination to teach Darija, the Moroccan Arabic dialect, has allowed diaspora Moroccan Jews to ...