500 Years of Life in the world’s first Jewish ghetto in Venice

  It’s the gold that catches the eye, the gilded wood carved to resemble vases filled with flowers, the Baroque handwork shimmering against a wall painted sky blue. Polished wooden benches, once More...

Book for Non-Circumcising Families Hits Reform Judaism Conference

  In November, I attended the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) 2015 Biennial conference in Orlando, Florida, where my co-author Rebecca Wald and I had a display booth in the exhibition hall. We were More...

Cuneiform Tablets Describing Jewish Life During Babylonian Exile Unveiled

Ancient clay tablets that went on public display for the first time this week provide a rare glimpse of how Jews lived during their exile in Babylon over two millennia ago, reports said. The approximately More...