For generations of Jews, the Shabbat represented an unbreakable freedom. They knew every new Pharaoh was a phony, and that no ...

Rabinbach joined Princeton’s faculty in 1996 and transferred to emeritus status in 2019. He served as director of the ...

In Cairo’s famous Ben Ezra Synagogue, one of the city’s most prominent Jewish landmarks, a treasure trove of history lay ...

President Trump's proposal for a mass relocation of Palestinians away from Gaza recalls Nazi Germany's "Madagascar Plan." ...

Identity in the Middle East is still shaped by social and economic relationships rather than by modern political boundaries.

UVA students selected objects for display and crafted museum text for The Fralin Museum of Art’s newest exhibition.

Was Jerusalem destroyed in 587 or 607 BCE? Often overlooked in this controversy is some evidence from Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian.

A recent Star guest commentary suggesting anti-Israel bias is distinct from hostility toward Jews is factually and ...

For American Jews in the early 1900s, it was American to oppose immigration in order to protect America. Yet it was Jewish to support Jews.

In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...

In the early 1960s, when I was a little boy, the Ku Klux Klan attacked my family by burning a cross in front of our house, ...

ORIGINS OF ZIONISM: Rabbi Lisa Vinikoor discusses the history of Zionism in the Beam classroom of the Visual Arts Center. The ...