New York State and City have “engaged in what can be described as ‘lawfare’ against yeshivahs,” a leader in the Bobov Chassidic community told JNS.

Turkey's Chief Rabbi Isak Haleva, who led the country's Jewish community for more than two decades, has died, its leadership said Tuesday. He was 85.

Dr Daniel McClellan, an honorary fellow at the University of Birmingham has finally revealed the back story of Jesus' supposed 'middle name'.

The Yiddish Book Center’s permanent exhibition offers much to kvell about, including a wide-ranging collection of volumes and ...

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In a press release that was translated from Hebrew to English, the university explained that ... contains coins written in ...

Kroll remembers thinking, I’m a little Jewish girl who’s been born into the wrong family. For most of her life, she didn’t realize that it was even possible to convert to Judaism. Then, in recent ...

Dating back to 79/80 BCE, the coins belonged to King Alexander Jannaeus (Jonathan in Hebrew), the second ruler of the ...

Each of its nine chapters includes source material from biblical verses, Talmudic discussions, and classical and contemporary responsa, in Hebrew/Aramaic and English, presented chronologically. ‘ ...

Closely related to other Semitic languages, like Hebrew and Arabic, small communities, namely Assyrians, still speak Aramaic today. Unlike most languages, Basque is a linguistic isolate, meaning it ...

Archaeologists digging in the Jordan Valley recently discovered a collection of ancient coins during this year's Hanukkah ...