Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Passover Seder – like this one in Azerbaijan – commemorates the story of the Israelites' escape from slavery, and the start of ...

“Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit. Take wives and beget sons and daughters… And seek the ...

Ezekiel was an exile. Born in the kingdom of Judah, he survived the siege of Jerusalem, in 597 B.C.E., but afterward was banished with his fellow-Jews to Babylon. While there, he had an arresting ...

Introduction: Towards a New History of Jews and the Sasanian Empire -- Jewish Society under Sasanian Rule: From Isolation to Integration -- Competing for Power: Jewish Elites and Sasanian Culture -- ...

Sara Shai’s “As My Soul Speaks” is an epic novel that traces the arc of Jewish history, from the destruction of the First Temple in 586 B.C.E., through centuries of diaspora, all the way to the ...

The Jewish holiday cycle is, to a large extent, an exploration and commemoration of the experience of exile. The fall festival of Sukkot, for example, is celebrated in small booths, temporary shelters ...