Cupids often are represented holding cups and associated with Dionysus, the god of the grape harvest, Goodenough explained in “Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period.” The suggestion is that ...

A Jewish man from Oakland is claiming he was kicked out of a local coffee shop over the weekend for wearing a Star of David hat. Jonathan Hirsch said he had just purchased a latte at the Jerusalem ...

More importantly, La Paz is a symbol of the Jewish people’s enduring resilience, of the ability to prosper and contribute and survive, even in the most foreign environments. Sent in refuge to ...

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?

Some Jewish students, parents and staffers are demanding the city ban Middle Eastern scarves in NYC public schools because ...

"If I have any Jewish symbols on – on Friday nights I wear a Kippah. I’m yelled at. Sometimes, people will make rude comments to me in passing." University of Pittsburgh student Racheli told ...

Mark Zuckerberg, born in 1984 in New York to a Reform Jewish family, has become one of the most influential figures in the ...

Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year in Judaism and follows Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The name of the holiday translates from Hebrew to English as the Day of Atonement, and Jewish ...

I didn’t know the term until I married one. Even though my family is 100 percent Jewish and my brother took a DNA test to prove it, up to that point, I had heard only the female equivalent of ...

Many have begun avoiding wearing Jewish symbols, hesitating to post Jewish or Israeli content on social media, and even feeling the need to hide their Jewish identity. In meetings I hold in my ...