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Diaspora
After hundreds of years underground, Jewish life on the Spanish island is reawakening
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Land of Israel
“Dear mother, I don’t know what to tell you. I will only say this: A thousand thanks and more, and forgive me, if you can…”
From medical school to the battlefield, he wound up in Siberia and China before America
In Genie Milgrom’s family, hidden Jewish identity was preserved for generations in the food they ate
Is there a connection between the pointed hat worn by mythical dwarfs and gnomes and the hats once worn by the Jews of Europe?
Judaism
In his own words, what does a new library for the Jewish world in Jerusalem mean?
Middle East
A seventeenth century travelogue by a famous Sufi mystic describes a strange and surprising image of Ottoman Palestine
Amsterdam’s Portuguese Jewish community adopted a seemingly strange image from Medieval Christian art
The sixth annual Docu.Text Documentary Film Festival will take place online from the 15th to the 25th of November, 2020
At Berlin’s Rykestrasse Synagogue, Fredi chanted Moses’ song of darkness and redemption
How the biblical figure of Naamah evolved into a terrifying demon that rises from the depths of the sea to seduce the men of the world
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