A centuries-old Jewish text that mysteriously ended up on an online marketplace is now returning home. In a press release last week, the Southern District of New York (SDNY) announced that a district ...

Researchers in Israel are hoping to make new discoveries about Jewish history by loading a digital database of manuscripts ...

Housed for centuries in the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat, Old Cairo, the Cairo Genizah contains more than 300,000 handwritten ...

To celebrate her second Tony of the night on Sunday, “Suffs” creator Shaina Taub turned to Jewish tradition. Taub won awards for best book of a musical and best original score written for theater for ...

Isaac Asimov’s iconic science fiction collection “I, Robot” tells the story of androids created at U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc. The androids range from “Robbie,” who is nonvocal, to “Stephen ...

A centuries-old mystery hidden in plain sight has finally come to light. In a modest prayer house in Israel, among community leaders and handwritten pages passed quietly from generation to generation, ...

That, according to Psalms, was the lament of the Jews exiled from their homes in Israel to the land of Babylon, where a harsh new reality made the old prayers and songs seem irrelevant. It has become ...

The classic example of Jewish ethics vs. “the law of the Torah” is the story of Shimon ben Shetach in the Palestinian Talmud Baba Metzia 2:5. Simeon ben Shetach, circa 140-60 BCE, was a Pharisee ...

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A court decision allowing Israeli women to take the Chief Rabbinate’s exams is the latest sign of growing recognition for ...