14) that DNA analysis has revealed that Columbus was a Sephardic Jew. Rumors of this have been floating around the Jewish world for a long time — long enough for us to wonder: Is it true?

This Jewish love story is woven into an account of Napoleon’s unsuccessful war in Egypt and Ottoman Palestine in the final years of the 18th century. Descriptions of the battles and the wanton ...

A recent book on Jewish identity before and after Zionism shows the limitations of a progressive critique that doesn’t truly account for the experience of Palestinians. German Jewish refugees ...

Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year in Judaism and follows Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The name of the holiday translates from Hebrew to English as the Day of Atonement, and Jewish ...

For Rachel Zivic, the Head of School of the Kellman Brown Academy in Voorhees, New Jersey, her background heavily influenced her decision to enter the Jewish professional space. Both of her paternal ...

What is it that keeps Jewish identity from petrifying, from becoming a relic of a time long past? The question of Jewish resilience has perplexed both Jewish and non-Jewish thinkers for centuries.

Yom Kippur is the most important day of the year for the Jewish faith and ends the 10-day period of repentance and reflection known as the "High Holidays," which began with Rosh Hashanah.

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. A federal jury in San Francisco has acquitted a former Lyft driver who punched an ...

Three men face charges over an alleged plot to target a Jewish site in western Germany, prosecutors said on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press. The primary suspect, a 25-year-old German ...

“I am the first-ever Israeli director of the center and first-ever Israeli employee of the Sacred Heart seminary.” AT SACRED HEART Seminary and School of Theology in Milwaukee. (photo credit ...

The English Forward was launched as a weekly in 1990. Its perspective on world and national news, and its unparalleled coverage of Jewish arts culture and opinion have made it the most influential ...

1The chief executive of UK Jewish Film Festival, which begins next week, has warned of the “erasure of British-Jewish culture from national cultural life” as Jews in the creative industries ...