Though less studied, the condition is also considered prevalent among Sephardic and Mediterranean Jews. Explanations for this genetic tendency abound, but many seem to indicate that pastoral ...

The statements by some of the largest Jewish organizations in the country come as some Israeli government ministers call for ...

By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their homeland in Judaea across the Mediterranean and there were major Jewish communities in Syria, Egypt, and Greece. Practicing a ...

University of Miami Religious Studies Professor Henry A. Green highlights the story of Jews who fled their homelands in the Arab world following the creation of Israel and subsequent ethnic ...

The Holocaust destroyed not only Yiddish culture of Eastern Europe, but also Ladino culture of the eastern Mediterranean. Like many Jewish communities in the eastern Mediterranean, the Jews of ...

The complete Mediterranean basin was effectively Roman ... For the ordinary people of the Jewish homeland, Rome was a kind of dominant political factor. Although they might not have seen Romans ...

An American who landed in Majorca five years ago soon found himself working to revive the Mediterranean island's Jewish community - with the help of families forced to convert from Judaism to ...