Food and spirit are front and center for Shannon Sarna’s Hanukkah celebrations. Sarna is the author of “Modern Jewish Comfort Food” and “Modern Jewish Baker.” “Preparing good food is my love language, ...

Seminar. For over seven hundred years, the Iberian Peninsula saw Muslims, Jews, and Christians living in close proximity, and thus historians dub it “Spain of the three religions.” This course ...

The Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University is a multi-disciplinary research center dedicated to bringing the concepts, theories, and techniques of social ...

(RNS) — I am talking about the creation of a thick American Jewish culture firmly rooted in American life and firmly rooted in Jewish traditions. (RNS) — Jews have been living on an emotional roller ...

“The Matriarchs,” by Liba Vaynberg, follows six Modern Orthodox girls as they grow up and grapple with their faith, as well as fertility, marriage, grief and more. By the time the playwright Liba ...

The Program in Judaic Studies, the Center for Collaborative History, and the Program in European Cultural Studies invite you to join us for this talk by Frances Tanzer on Thursday, October 30.

The Tradition Rooted in Modesty and Spiritual Practice In many Orthodox Jewish communities, married women cover their hair as ...

Evolution is a process that can take many millennia, if not longer. For a scholarly organization like the Yiddish archive and cultural institution YIVO, the process only took a century. YIVO (the ...

Muslim Spain – al-Andalus – was the home to Christians, Muslims and Jews who lived together in both cooperation and conflict, helping lay the foundations for the later European Renaissance and ...

These creators, offering friendly content about Jewish identity and customs, collectively have over 15 million followers. This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a ...

The writer Mike Gold, whose “Jews Without Money” was arguably the most influential literary novel by a Jewish American in the mid-20th century, was a committed anti-Zionist. His funny and often tragic ...