An obscure Babylonian document from the world famous Dead Sea Scroll collection was almost certainly a precursor to the Jewish calendar according to University of Manchester research. An obscure ...

A Jewish person is someone who follows the ... This is called the mezuzah, which is a scroll with the Shema prayer. It is always kept in a small case on the door frame. The synagogue is an ...

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A Torah scroll that disappeared from a Dutch synagogue following the Nazi invasion into the Netherlands has been rediscovered 80 years later and returned to the Jewish community.

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A swastika was carved into the doorframe of a Jewish student’s house in the Dutch city of Maastricht and the mezuzah was torn off. The Maastricht University student ...

Most of the intact scrolls were easily readable by anyone who knew Hebrew or, in one case, Aramaic. The fragmentary scrolls, however, presented a more difficult problem. These too were mostly ...

The local Jewish community honored U.S. Sen. John Fetterman for his support of Israel and opposition to antisemitism during a ...

In a first look at Emhoff's upcoming interview on 'Uncomfortable Conversations with Emmanuel Acho,' the second gentleman talks about the last time he cried Kyler Alvord is a news editor at PEOPLE ...

In the first century of our era there were many sects and schools in Jewish society. We hear about the Essenes, of course, the Jews of Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls, who separated themselves from ...

14) that DNA analysis has revealed that Columbus was a Sephardic Jew. Rumors of this have been floating around the Jewish world for a long time — long enough for us to wonder: Is it true?

And a single can lasts for years. Many Jewish homes feature a mezuzah (a parchment inscribed with a prayer, ensconced in decorative casing) affixed to the door frame as a reminder of God’s presence.

SANDY SPRINGS — Democrat Susie Greenberg noticed the mezuzah, a parchment containing scrolls of Hebrew prayers, affixed to the doorpost on Catherine and Brad Cohen’s home as she asked for thei ...