A central figure in the development of Jewish mysticism, Luria died at 38 and left behind no significant writings. Isaac Luria was a 16th-century rabbi whose teachings exerted an enormous influence on ...

Leave it to the Jews to have a cookie inspired by cultural annihilation! Hamantaschen are the triangular pastries associated with the holiday of Purim, when Jews read from the Book of Esther, the ...

I know you guys enjoy a good recipe hack, and I think you will love this one: two ingredient rugelach! That’s right: just a package of puff pastry, filling and that’s it. You can make flaky, sweet, ...

A giant of a man. A new chapter of Bekhorot that began on yesterday’s daf pivoted from blemishes that disqualify a firstborn animal to blemishes that disqualify a human priest from performing ...

In traditional communities, a child must be formally converted if adopted or born to a non-Jewish mother. Parents may want to consider converting their infants or children to Judaism for a variety of ...

The perpetrator of the Hebron massacre is both vilified and celebrated. On Purim morning, February 25 1994, Baruch Goldstein walked into the Muslim prayer hall at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron.

Leader and nation who will battle Jews before the coming of the Messiah. Gog and Magog refers to the enemies against whom God will wage an apocalyptic war at the dawn of the messianic age. The wars of ...

A Christian name for the Hebrew Bible. Most of the Old Testament was written in Hebrew, but a few sections were written in Aramaic. Usually, the Old Testament refers to the English or Latin ...

The Bene Israel have always been the largest of the three Jewish communities in India. (The other two are Cochin and Baghdadi.) In 1838, for example, the total Bene Israel population of India was ...

Bob Dylan's lyrics never explicitly invoke his Jewish roots, but Jewish influences are never far from the surface. Bob Dylan, the great songwriter and performer, was born Robert Allen Zimmerman. The ...

Israelis have developed and continue to enjoy a delicious cuisine rooted in the uniqueness of Israeli society itself. Whether or not a “true Israeli cuisine” exists is something food critics and ...

The espionage conviction of a French military officer was a watershed event in the history of European anti-Semitism. At the end of the 19th century in France, the birthplace of European Jewish ...