During these thousand years, this period was nourished by legends and unfounded speculations, such as the alleged conversion of the Khazars, used to compensate for the lack of historical sources. It ...
Following the deportation of Jews to Babylonia between 597 BCE and 586 BCE, most of them lived outside the Land of Israel.
Shlomo Sand, a historian at Tel Aviv University, boldly challenges the very foundation of Israel’s national ideology in his hard-hitting 332-page work The Invention of the Jewish People.
This year’s conference was equally strong and morally clear, hitting back hard against Hellenistic Jews who have said nothing (or worse) after the worst antisemitic massacre since the Holocaust ...
A crucial investigation into the theology, religious atmosphere, and literary traditions of ancient Christianity and its relationship to Platonic philosophy and Hellenistic Judaism, it included ...
This is the profound and remarkable story of the 550,000 Jewish Americans who served their country in World War II. These brave men and women fought for their nation and for Jewish people worldwide.
In actuality, these developments are not about fighting antisemitism or, for that matter, keeping Jews safe. Rather, this appears to me to be a cynical ploy by an administration full of people who ...
In Judaism, this was frowned upon, and the Jewish kosher laws were framed partly in opposition to the prevailing Hellenistic attitude toward wine. Though the wine lover and connoisseur will be ...