Bryn Mawr and Haverford students may have more opportunities to study Jewish history in the coming semesters. A group of 18 Bi-Co faculty members has received an internal grant to develop a formal ...

One of the curiosities in “The Story of Hebrew” by Lewis Glinert (Princeton University Press) is that the author manages to write a history of the Hebrew language without using a single Hebrew letter ...

The program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...

Two courses in Old Testament literature and Hebrew history will be given in the School of Religion at the University of Kansas, with the full college credit. The courses will be under the direction of ...

Journalist Julia Ioffe, former Obama aide Sarah Hurwitz and historian Pamela Nadell are also winners of a National Jewish Book Award.

(RNS) — Despite both having a history of persecution, the groups’ alliance has repeatedly been tested.

"A truly beautiful letter," writes the Israeli artist Izzy Pludwinski in his new book, "The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter," "will possess a dynamism, an internal lifeforce." "Letters," he adds, "are the ...

As a moment in time, the Oct. 7 massacre was, paradoxically, an event both anomalous and familiar, at once exceptional and routine. It was horrifying and shocking to the extreme, yet, given the ...

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published Feb. 29, 2016. This year is Leap Year in both the secular Gregorian calendar — the one most of the world goes by — and in the Hebrew calendar.