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Masada
The site where hundreds of Jews held out against a Roman siege has become a modern symbol of Jewish heroism.
The Jews of France
The third-largest Jewish community in the world has undergone alternating periods of achievement and persecution.
The Jews of Argentina
The largest Jewish community in Latin America has struggled through the economic and political upheavals of the 20th century.
Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai
The grave of this second century rabbi is the site of a large annual pilgrimage.
Ask the Expert: Can I Convert to Judaism and Still Be Christian?
Judaism and Christianity profess beliefs that are incompatible with each other.
Ask the Expert: What’s the Difference Between Jewish Prayers and Jewish Blessings?
Distinguishing between different types of Jewish prayers.
Ask the Expert: How Do I Celebrate the In-Between Days of Passover?
How to mark the middle days of the eight-day festival.
The Jews of Russia
The territories of the former Russian Empire were the cradle of Jewish modernity, the birthplace of Zionism and Jewish socialism, and a major center of the Hasidic movement.
Natan Sharansky
A former Soviet dissident, Sharansky spent nine years in prison and became the face of the movement to free Jews living under communism.
Is Abracadabra a Jewish word?
Widely believed to derive from Aramaic, the phrase appears nowhere in classical Jewish sources.
The Jews of England
Home to some of the worst antisemitic incidents in European history, British Jews have also found England to be one of the most philo-semitic countries of modern times.