Everyone knows that pigs aren't kosher. But in a new book, Jews' relationship with pork came to define Jewish culture and ...

A professor of religious studies explores how the pig became the ultimate Jewish taboo — and an inadvertent marker of Jewish ...

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The mikveh is used for a ritualistic cleansing bath by Jews, and was likely built in the Middle Ages, officials said.

Books & the Arts / A recent book on Jewish identity before and after Zionism shows the limitations of a progressive critique ...

Jew-haters don’t care whether we’re Reform or Orthodox, Republican or Democrat, progressive or conservative, Ashkenazi or ...

An ancient Jewish text has been discovered and returned 80 years after it was looted from a Hungarian seminary during the occupation of the Nazis in 1944. An announcement by the U.S. Attorney's ...

Christopher Columbus was Jewish, DNA experts concluded in a long-awaited investigation into the true origins of one of ...

Since the Oct. 7 attack, more than four in 10 American Jews have either sought out or engaged more with Jewish life, ...