During these thousand years, this period was nourished by legends and unfounded speculations, such as the alleged conversion of the Khazars, used to compensate for the lack of historical sources. It ...

Circa 500 BC, Jewish heroine Esther appears before her husband Xerxes I, King of Persia to accuse Haman of plotting against the Jewish race. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) ...

As is tradition, in Levi’s memory, I studied a tractate of Mishnah. The one I chose was Avodah Zarah, which deals with the mitzvot of distancing ourselves from foreign worship and influences.

(JTA) — As an avid book collector who operates an independent Jewish press, Larry Yudelson was excited to learn that a new, annotated version of the Mishnah, the earliest compendium of Oral ...