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Passover begins at sundown on April 12 this year and lasts until April 20. Rabbi Benjamin Zober of Temple Sinai explains the holiday.
Fighting tyranny starts with embracing and amplifying our shared national narratives, writes a scholar at the Pardes ...
JTA — The Passover Haggadah is one of the few sacred Jewish texts that has a long history of including illustrations, and ...
The Passover Haggadah is one of the few sacred Jewish texts that has a long history of including illustrations, and among the most remarkable are detailed images of rabbit hunts ...
Centering Judaism in this authoritarian attack on universities simply does not treat its promotion of intellectual vitality ...
The relationship between the Jewish communities of Egypt and Israel created an underlying tension, not unlike the modern-day relationship between world Jewry and the Jews of the State of Israel.
Because the text is a pseudepigraphal work it was not considered canonical by the Jewish and Christian communities and ...
In Jewish tradition, a person taking an oath often ... But why is holding a sacred object essential to the procedure of oath-taking? What is it about “holiness” that lends weight and ...
“Far more ancient written Hebrew texts had been discovered ... from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. “Sacred Words: Revealing the Earliest Hebrew Book,” will be on view at the Jewish Theological Seminary ...
“Kuma” is short for “Kuma, Mei-Afatzim Vekankantum,” Rosenzweig’s name for the scroll, harkening to the ingredients used to create ink for Jewish sacred texts. Rosenzweig worked on this ...
Netanyahu quickly disavowed and rebuked Ben-Gvir, whose visit also outraged Orthodox Jews who consider the Temple Mount, revered as the site of Judaism's two ancient temples, too sacred a place ...
“We do have a problem with the Ukrainian language in the Jewish community, she said.” Still, she said that she sees some promising developments — like the translation of religious texts into Ukrainian ...