Jweekly.com1 天
Bucking Israel’s far right, several large American Jewish groups say they oppose ...
The statements by some of the largest Jewish organizations in the country come as some Israeli government ministers call for ...
PBS5 年
In the first century AD, Jews lived across the Roman Empire in relative harmony.
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 ...
BBC5 年
The New Yorker reviving Jewish life on a holiday island
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 ...
Nature14 天
Mediterranean Unity and Diversity
THE unity of the Mediterranean world in all geographical ... is venerated by Muslims as well as by Jews and Christians. The festivals of Al-Khidr, Elijah and St. George occur on the same day ...
PBS1 年
Jews and the Roman Empire
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 ...
来自MSN4 个月
Remembering the longest journey to Auschwitz – the deportation of Rhodes’ Jews ...
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 ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency5 年
For lactose intolerant Jews, Shavuot’s dairy diet is a test of intestinal fortitude
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 ...