(RNS) — Was he, or wasn’t he? The question says more about American Jews than about the great explorer himself. (RNS) — Just in time for Columbus Day, reports emerged on Monday (Oct.

This Jewish love story is woven into an account of Napoleon’s unsuccessful war in Egypt and Ottoman Palestine in the final years of the 18th century. Descriptions of the battles and the wanton ...

Spanish scientists announced in a new documentary that first aired on Saturday that DNA analysis shows the 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe.

There are also 11 gubernatorial races on the ballot. And a number of the outcomes may hinge on the Jewish vote, whether because of debates over Israel or because the district in question has a ...

A recent book on Jewish identity before and after Zionism shows the limitations of a progressive critique that doesn’t truly account for the experience of Palestinians. German Jewish refugees ...

A professor of religious studies explores how the pig became the ultimate Jewish taboo — and an inadvertent marker of Jewish identity. In 2021, the Orthodox Union declined to put its kosher ...

Everyone knows pork isn’t kosher. So why, then, are Jews so obsessed with it? For nearly all of Jewish history, pigs have been inescapable. During eras of Roman rule, rulers would challenge Jews ...

Local authorities have charged a man with attempted murder after he allegedly shot an Orthodox Jew walking to synagogue on Saturday morning in Chicago. The victim, a 39-year-old man whose identity ...

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Demonstrators with Jewish Voice for Peace gather in front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City on October 14, 2024. Sofia Fani Gutman / Jewish Voice for Peace On Monday morning, hundreds of ...