The first Passover is an event that occurred about 3,500 years ago. It marks the beginning of the Jewish people as a free people. The first commandment given to the Jewish people was to construct ...

A plan for a new universal calendar, based on reform of the Hebrew calendar, gas been brought forward by Nissim Elnecave, Jewish scholar, in an article in a special edition of the review La Luz ...

While hiding from the Nazis for more than two years, Israel Sheiner came up with a creative solution to ensure that his family would be able to observe Shabbat and the Jewish holidays properly: He ...

Humanity is currently engaged in a massive, civilization-sized project to digitize all knowledge. You may have heard about this. The project is huge, but it’s not unified; contained within it are ...

Join the Program in Judaic Studies for this year's Kwartler Family Lecture with Julia Rhyder on Tuesday, October 21. Abstract Commemorating war is such an integral part of the modern nation-state, and ...