Talia read the first four aliyot in Ashkenazi trope, from a standard Ashkenazi Torah scroll. For the fifth Aliyah, which ...
A sprawling Yiddish-language epic looks back on the lost world of Jewish life in the shtetls of early 20th-century Europe.
The most significant of Farissol’s writings is Igereth Orchoth Olam, a comprehensive cosmographic and geographic work based on original research and the studies of Christian and Arab geographers.
The development of "Dayenu," that Haggadah ditty that recaps the many miracles the Israelites experienced throughout the Book ...
If one believes in a Divine plan and the natural ups and downs of life, they will feel less anxious and hypersensitive.
A gender studies professor in Virginia whose latest work focuses on rape and sexual assault in the Scriptures is leading a ...
Dr. J.D. Gray served for many years as pastor at First Baptist Church, New Orleans. He often delighted in telling a Civil War ...
The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical ...
It all started with a young woman named Bathsheba Spooner, daughter of Timothy Ruggles, a prominent Loyalist during the Revolutionary War. Ruggles was named in the Massachusetts Banishment Act ...
Author Maggie Anton shares why, after writing a novel set in the 20th century, she decided to write a novel set in Biblical times.