There’s nothing partisan or antisemitic about recognizing obstacles to diversity in Jewish life, writes the director of the Jewish Language Project. (JTA) — As a linguist who studies Jewish language, ...

Ladino was once spoken by Jews expelled from Spain. Stanford scholar Nesi Altaras is immersed in the language of that lost ...

(RNS) — More than a century ago, in 1896, Rabbi Solomon Schechter, the great Jewish educator and founder of Conservative Judaism, traveled to Egypt to begin documenting a trove of Jewish manuscripts ...

One day, when Sabrina Hakim was out for a walk with her father, he started speaking a language she could not understand. Sabrina figured he must be speaking Judeo-Kashi, a variety of Judeo-Iranian.

There is a major debate in Israel today about core education. Most people know this debate from one direction: religious ...

On Sukkot, we strengthen our local communities, hosting elaborate meals with relatives and friends and leaving one wall of the sukkah open, symbolizing hospitality. Sukkot also invokes the Jewish ...

(RNS) — Growing up in Fez, Morocco, Yona Elfassi was always aware of the history of the city, which has been a center of culture, learning and spirituality since the ninth century. Home to great minds ...

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April marks when Allied forces liberated seven Nazi concentration camps 81 years ago. Six million Jewish people were murdered ...

Jewish Life Television is now available on Glandorf Telephone and Kalida Telephone Chanel 108. The network bills itself as ...