The displays connect archaeological findings to the continuity of Jewish governance and democratic traditions, organizers ...

The opening note hung in the air, rich, resonant, and full of promise, much like the instrument itself. The zhongruan, with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HEBREW POET Leah Goldberg. (photo credit: ALEPH Festival) Taking place simultaneously in Berlin, London, Stockholm, New York, ...

Taking place simultaneously in Berlin, London, Stockholm, New York, Boston, and Hollywood, Florida, the festival spotlights Hebrew not only as an ancient language, but as a living, evolving tongue.

It isn’t just Weldon Gray who lights up when he shows off one of the many banjos he’s built over the years, pointing out every detail of the instrument’s construction and intricate decoration.

(RNS) — More than a century ago, in 1896, Rabbi Solomon Schechter, the great Jewish educator and founder of Conservative Judaism, traveled to Egypt to begin documenting a trove of Jewish manuscripts ...

Hanukkah 2025 begins this weekend and lasts for eight days leading into the winter solstice and nearing the Christmas holiday. Here's when and what to know about the first night of the Jewish holiday.

Archaeologists have finished uncovering the longest continuous remains of an ancient wall that encircled Jerusalem, including possible evidence of a 2,100-year-old ceasefire between warring kingdoms.

Twelve large conch shells found in Spain may have been used as trumpet-like instruments, according to new research. Two archaeologists from the University of Barcelona, Miquel López-García and ...

Rabbi Micah D. Greenstein, D.D. has served as the rabbi of Temple Israel in Memphis, Tennessee for three decades— sustaining the Temple’s position as the largest synagogue in Tennessee and the Deep ...

As a yarmulke-wearing summer college intern in Coats’s office at the time, I fondly recall the senator’s warm and sincere enthusiasm for the project, for the Jewish people in general, and for his ...

The bronze coins were found in a pit inside a complex of tunnels dug during the Great Revolt. Israel Antiquities Authority Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a hoard of bronze Roman coins in an ...