One of the longest-surviving forms of alternative Judaism is Karaism, a belief system which rejects the Oral Torah and only accepts the Written Torah. However, despite its lengthy history, Karaite ...

Pessah is the “acting rav” for America’s largest Karaite community, made up of members of a now-tiny Jewish sect that parted ways with rabbinic Judaism more than a millennium ago. While adhering to ...

Tradition teaches that on Passover, all Jews must embody the experience of Exodus, feeling as if we ourselves have gone through it. For the Karaite Jews from Egypt — a community that rejected rabbinic ...

Will one of Judaism’s oldest communities survive another generation? For the past two years, the Karaite Qahal in Istanbul’s Haskoy neighborhood has been almost empty for the High Holidays. This Yom ...

Residents of this small Black Sea resort town like to call their city “the Jerusalem of the Crimea.” They have good reason: Evpatoria, population 120,000, is home to about 800 Karaites, members of a ...

WARSAW, POLAND – When I arrived in Poland, my goal was clear, to better understand the health and genetic conditions affecting the Karaite community, a small and historically isolated group with deep ...

Crimea's tiny 800-strong Karaite minority -- Turkic-speaking, not entirely Jewish and overwhelmingly pro-Russian -- hopes that Moscow's takeover of the peninsula will help them preserve their ancient ...