This article forms a broad overview of the history of Judaism, from its beginnings until the present day. The history of Judaism is inseparable from the history of Jews themselves. The early part of ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Jordana Horn AMERICA’S JEWISH WOMEN A History From Colonial Times to Today By Pamela S. Nadell ...

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 ...

Yet this framing itself is mistaken. God did not ask the Jewish people to choose between faithfulness and responsibility, ...

As a moment in time, the Oct. 7 massacre was, paradoxically, an event both anomalous and familiar, at once exceptional and routine. It was horrifying and shocking to the extreme, yet, given the ...

Though no Jews live there today, the African territory has a history of Jewish merchants, and a tribal clan with a crypto-Jew ...

Last week, local historians and researchers Vasyl Selyavin and Oleksander Shiva discovered the devastation: gravestones had ...

New research suggests that the majority of the world’s modern Jewish population is descended mainly from people from ancient Turkey, rather than predominantly from elsewhere in the Middle East. The ...

Seven colleagues pay tribute to the New York University historian, soon to retire, who revealed “entirely new paradigms about the study of the past.” (JTA) — Hasia Diner, renowned scholar of American ...

Some progressive Jews are embracing “diasporism” — reimagining their faith as one that blesses their lives in America and elsewhere. By Marc Tracy Last month, on the first night of Hanukkah, more than ...

In an encore post, Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein explain that the early Jewish emphasis on literacy set Jews up for economic success. But the popularity of the third-ranked post, of the more ...