Both the Jews and the Romans certainly saw Jesus as a troublemaker. The Gospels depict Herod Antipas, the Jewish agent of Rome in the Galilee, as a fuming critic of this renegade rabbi. As for the ...

While every Haggadah incorporates the 15 steps, not all Haggadot — the plural of Haggadah — are the same. Jews are a diverse ...

But from the French Revolution onwards, a piecemeal emancipation allowed wealthy Jewish merchants, industrialists and bankers ...

Jews may not have had a state, but for centuries they had been practicing community politics in ways that closely resemble ...

Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language has been preserving a treasure trove of accents and pronunciations that are swiftly becoming lost by its own work to standardize language ...

Michael Halperin, author of the Holocaust novel 'Jacob's Rescue,' also developed the 'bible' for He-Man and 'Masters of the ...

Is the Passover Seder Zionist? Or is it, in fact, the exact opposite?Like most Jewish questions, it depends on who you ask.

More than the miracles, or the crossing of the Red Sea, or the revelation of God in the desert (His presence was already ...

The exhibit featured books telling the Passover story from many centuries and regions of the world, encouraging visitors to ...

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

In Cambridge, brilliance is a given – but moral courage is not. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where equations ...