Eliezer Ben Yehuda (1858-1922), the “Father of the Modern Hebrew Language,” is best known for one of the truly great socio-linguistic events in world history: his virtually single-handed revival of ...

Jewish history isn’t random happenstance; Israel’s reconstituted national sovereign independence in the Land of Israel within ...

From Roman renaming of Judaea as Syria Palaestina to the UN Partition Plan of 1947, this 2,000-year timeline traces the ...

* * A fascinating history of ancient and modern Hebrew: “After the destruction of the Temple in the first century, Jews were scattered among non-Hebrew-speaking populations. As the Aristide incident ...

The story of Henry’s wives — albeit without Jewish content — will be retold Oct. 7-12 at the Benedum Center in “SIX,” recast ...

One of his best-known books was a history of Jewish attitudes about sexuality. David Biale, a professor of Jewish history who wrote award-winning books about heretics, free-thinkers, radicals and the ...

Yom Kippur, widely regarded as the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, is observed just over a week after the Jewish New Year ...

Yom Kippur will begin Oct. 1at sunset. Here's what to know about the meaning of the Jewish holiday, customs and greetings ...

As Cornell’s Jewish community grapples with antisemitic threats and a tense campus culture following the start of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7, The Sun explored the larger history of Jewish student ...