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But if a principle cause of antisemtism is a a jealousy – indeed a repugnance – for Jewish carnality and sexuality, it follows that the antidote to battle PTSD isn’t only found in therapy or medicine.
Thousands of Syria’s Jews left in recent decades. But after Assad’s ouster and easing of sanctions, they can now reconnect ...
Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human ...
Modern values have transformed many Jewish couples’ weddings, just as they have transformed the Christian wedding. Some ...
The ancient sources implying Queen Zenobia converted to Judaism are possibly accurate,” Haggai Olshanetsky, of University of Warsaw, told JNS.The post Third-century queen, target of Syrian government, ...
Traditional Jewish ceremonies, like Christian ones, marked a woman’s transition from daughter to wife − going from her ...
War has gone on for many years and leaves scars that don't heal. Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Iran wars are ...
A tractate concerning Jewish monetary law from the Babylonian Talmud, scribed in 1721 by a 12-year-old Amschel Moses ...
Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition? This tale became widespread around the late 19th century, when large ...
Jacob’s midnight wrestling match wasn’t just a dramatic turning point in the Torah it left a mark on Jewish kitchens forever.
A Yiddish translation of “Arabian Nights” sounds like the set-up to a Borscht Belt joke. Yet, as a recent finalist for a ...
Her mission with the Great Nosh Picnic was even bigger. She wanted to create a large-scale celebration of Jewish food and ...