After decades there, some have finally avoided looming deportation. (RNS) — The small African Hebrew Israelite community in Israel’s Negev Desert last month celebrated a major milestone in its ...

In 1974, Pamela Nadler Emmerich — then a teenager from Montreal — arrived in Jerusalem for her freshman year at Hebrew University. Not knowing what to expect, she signed up for a course on ...

Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. On a radiant spring morning in Jerusalem, a group of visitors walked into the Cultural and Educational Center at the ...

Under that term, we talk about a library of texts, roughly three-fourths (by verses) out of the Hebrew language and ... These are often referred to as “apocrypha,” and generally the reason ...

If you include the Apocrypha, then Judith and Susanna are two more ... and it was clearly edited because there are two forms of the book of Esther, being the shorter Hebrew Masoretic version, and a ...

Hebrew Union College has purchased ABC's longtime headquarters at 56 W. 66th St. for $32 million. UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is ...

The Codex Sassoon, the oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, is set to go to auction this year. Religious texts like this one were a major factor in keeping Hebrew alive for two thousand years.

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Reform movement’s rabbinical seminary and educational institution, will sell its downtown Manhattan building to New York University, it was ...

It is now better known as Hanukkah (also spelt Chanukah), from the Hebrew word for "dedication ... Many modern English translations which seem squeamish about cross-referencing the Apocrypha do not ...

About a decade ago, one of her friends started creating Facebook posts suggesting that Christians should be keeping the laws laid out in the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. “She would say things ...