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A modern phenomenon.

A historian traces the origins of the term.

Civil rights and wrongs.

When tolerance became profitable

Court Jews were purveyors who provided food, fodder, and munitions to the European courts in return for special privileges.

Ancient Jewish Thought. Ancient Jewish History. Jewish History and Community.

Overview of the basic story of Jewish history from 539 BCE through 632 CE.

Jewish law mandates a healthful lifestyle.

If it does not serve a legitimate medical purpose, cosmetic surgery is frowned upon by the Jewish legal tradition.

How this genre gleans deep meaning from the Torah's text

Halakhic Midrash on Exodus.

Rabbinic authorities have used different arguments to redress inequities in the way halakhah treats non-Jews.