judaism

How Karaite law dictated who was considered "marriageable."

How Karaite laws influence weddings, divorce and ritual purity.

This best-selling author celebrated the immigrant experience and the boundless opportunity of America.

How they are educated and their role in the community.

This Israeli writer, stage actress, and film actress has a complicated identity.

At one point, America's favorite family was a Jewish immigrant and her children.

Gangsters, beggars, prostitutes and other inhabitants of Jewish Odessa.

Jewish messianism has been repeatedly reinterpreted in the modern era.

How she waited and prayed patiently for a child and was rewarded.

Jewish sources have not, as a general rule, focused attention on the specific personal qualities of the Messiah.