Category: Jewish

It is doubtful that many of the tourists crowding around the sculpture of Franz Kafka’s head in the city where he was born have actually read his stories. More likely, they visit this peculiar sculpture simply because it appears on every list of…

Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish…

WASHINGTON — Graham Platner, the progressive Democrat running for Maine’s Senate primary, has found himself sharply under fire from Jewish organizations over his recently revealed skull-and-crossbones tattoo on his chest, which is also a Nazi…

Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli was instructed on Tuesday to issue a formal apology to leaders of the U.K. Jewish community for not consulting with them before inviting far-right British agitator Tommy Robinson to Israel on an official…

VIENNA – Work began to restore Vienna’s oldest synagogue, the Stadttempel, on Friday. To mark the beginning of the project, renowned Austrian visual artist Gottfried Helnwein unveiled a presentation featuring photographs of children from the…

As a social and cultural historian of the Jews, with a special interest in Jewish women, it was only natural that Shulamit Magnus be drawn to the plight of agunot – literally “chained women” who, under rabbinic law, are stuck in their marriages…

Biblical scholars started to cast a critical gaze on the Old Testament, and on their composition, in the 17th and 18th centuries. Early on, European researchers and scholars were drawn to a puzzling story in 2 Kings 22: the exploits of King…