The Jewish population of Judea and Galilee was divided into three religious groups, two major and one minor. The largest group by numbers were the Pharisees but they were not a majority.

Betar US is going after pro-Palestinian activists — and also pro-Israel advocates whose tactics it deems overly timid.

In addition to the loss of its Jewish citizens, forensic accounting work reveals that assets, institutions and property seized from Jews in Iraq total over $34 billion by today ’ s valuation.

The custom of including the Ten Commandments as part of the Shema was once widespread, but from a certain point in time it was systematically opposed by the Sages. Why did they object to it?

Since the late 1970s, the future of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank has been the country’s most divisive debate. Yet ...

He died in December 1993. Isaac Abarbanel was a prominent 15th-century Jewish sage who worked in Portugal and, after the Spanish Inquisition, in Italy. JTA has documented Jewish history in real ...

The Greek word that you rendered as “thieves” (lestai) can be translated as “robbers” or “bandits,” and is used to connote violent national revolutionaries by the 1st-century Jewish ...

It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...

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Miami’s Black police officers had to follow a different set of rules. They were restricted to policing only Black ...

The two human services buildings — the almshouse and hospital — likely were the fourth and fifth buildings under county watch ...