French pop historian Vincent Lemire's illustrated tome makes some loaded choices in depicting the Jewish parts of history.

Jewish food, and especially Ashkenazic Jewish food, is slowly but steadily returning to the country, where many of the dishes ...

It’s hard to classify this thought-provoking book – part memoir, part philosophical exploration, but mostly a deeply ...

Why is there a Jewish practice to bury prayer books and other texts that contain God's name? A rabbi offers the mystical ...

A Yiddish translation of “Arabian Nights” sounds like the set-up to a Borscht Belt joke. Yet, as a recent finalist for a ...

A new Jewish concept restaurant opens in S.F. The co-author of a Jewish Mexican cookbook will speak in S.F. on July 8. And ...

Captain America should be the most jingoistic superhero. But on this July Fourth, it's good to remember that he, like America ...

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

Traditional Jewish ceremonies, like Christian ones, marked a woman’s transition from daughter to wife − going from her parents to her husband. But there are creative ways to reflect gender equality ...

The Western elites have told themselves, “Get rid of biblical religion, and we can have a better world, a world of conscience ...

With shelves of Bob Dylan books out there, this examination of his Jewishness doesn't do enough to earn its place.

In Parshat Hukat, the Israelites journey through the wilderness of Zin, encamp at Kadesh, skirt Edom via the Sea of Reeds, ...