An ancient Megillat Esther scroll dating back to the 19th century, bearing rare stamps from the community of Gaza expatriates ...

Built in the 6th century BCE and destroyed in 410 BCE by priests of the Egyptian god Khnum, the temple was a place where ...

Two Seminole County high schools will host their senior prom on April 12, the Jewish holiday of Passover, proof that the ...

With roots tracing back to the Hellenistic period and even before that, Egypt was home to one of the most ancient and vibrant Jewish communities in the world. The prosperity and the relatively ...

Purim, therefore, is the prototype for Jewish survival during exile. The Divine Providence hidden in apparently random events ...

The Israeli documentary Egypt, A Love Song tells the story of Souad Zaki, a Jewish chanteuse who was the star of concert ...

Among tightly interwoven threads that form Judaism’s cultural fabric are religion and politics. They’re inseparable parts of ...

Protected by Rome and allowed to continue their religion, everything was fine until rebellion in Judaea led to a major change in the practice of their faith. By the beginning of the first century ...

The Torah vividly describes galut as a punishment and curse.

Arab countries reject Gaza displacement as ethnic cleansing, but Israeli officials say they are working on plans to make it ...

Later, a man named Moses saved the Jewish people from persecution in Egypt when he led them to safety across the Red Sea. After this, the Jews lived in the desert where God gave Moses a set of ...

Hundreds of Jews were massacred, and thousands fled to Egypt, thus ending the rich Jewish life in the Galilee and Judea. Yahrzeit (anniversary of death) of Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk ...