In the first century of our era there were many sects and schools in Jewish society. We hear about the Essenes, of course, the Jews of Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls, who separated themselves from ...

In other words, based on the evidence available they think that around the start of the first century a controversial Jewish rabbi named Yeshua ben Yosef gathered a following and his life and ...

(JTA) — The first African-American female rabbi will leave her congregation ... JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us ...

When she visited Italy for the first time with her father back in 1975, Rabbi Barbara Aiello, from the United States, remembers thinking, “I’ll live here one day.” Three decades later she ...

“Figures important to 20th-century Judaism and to Israel ... this tension,” Rogachevsky said. The post 1st street in Israel named for Masorti rabbi who influenced Declaration of Independence ...