(JTA) — How often do men think about the Roman Empire ... fear and admiration, a strange, Jewish brew that I inherited from my ancient ancestors. So how often do I think about the Roman Empire?

What happens when neither of those exists? (JTA) — Every seven years, in ancient times, Jewish men, women, and children would gather at the Temple on the first day of Sukkot to hear the king of ...

The Scrolls are believed to date back to 250 BCE to 68 CE. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of ancient Jewish manuscripts. The first fragment to be displayed is a sheet of the Great Psalms ...

David was a shepherd who became a king of ancient Israel. The Books of Samuel in the Jewish Bible tell how David ... Progressive Jews let men and women sit together in the synagogue, recite ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. Gideon Bohak gives a pioneering account of the broad history of ancient Jewish ...

Prior to the Roman Exile , the Jewish People had to be educated and habituated to bear the brunt of persecution. There is a ...

Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies and the temples were allowed to collect the yearly tax paid by all Jewish men for temple maintenance.

Members of the Jewish priesthood (Cohanim) are an unusual group in that the men of this ancient priestly class can claim descent from a single male ancestor. According to biblical accounts ...

It’s at least as likely that Jews took to the arena in ancient Rome ... with the Jewish audience, “foreign to Jewish custom,” and “a glaring impiety to throw men to wild beasts.” ...