“To a true collector,” the German philosopher Walter Benjamin noted in his 1931 essay “Unpacking My Library,” “the acquisition of an old book is its rebirth.” This is an apt way to ...

The Orit is the Ethiopian variant of the Hebrew Bible, Rom-Shiloni said. Prior to the compilation of the text known today as the Hebrew Bible, Jewish communities had similar “but certainly not ...

A new book and HBO documentary tell the story of Rick Hodes, an Orthodox Jewish doctor in Ethiopia who has made a life’s work of helping seemingly hopeless, sick children in one of the world’s ...