Food can bring people together, but can it also tell the story of a culture’s past? The Jewish Federation of Lee and Charlotte County put that idea to the test.

The goal of the book is straightforward: to provide readers with the historical grounding needed to engage seriously in today ...

Ethiopia's Orthodox Christians are celebrating Epiphany, locally known as Timkat. Monday's celebrations commemorate the ...

(RNS) — One academic's determination to teach Darija, the Moroccan Arabic dialect, has allowed diaspora Moroccan Jews to ...

(JTA) — Jonathan Dekel-Chen, the father of a former Israeli hostage, has been appointed to join Columbia University as a ...

His legendary jazz fused American style and Cuban rhythms with East Africa's pentatonic scales. Now, at age 82, Mulatu ...

Rye bread, sour milk, and maybe some herring — for a poor Jew, these were the makings of a meal. The Jews I have in mind were ...

"We are all Jews here," Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds said to a Nazi commandant at a POW camp during World War II.

Garbis Korajian’s autobiography is not only an engaging memoir, but an important commentary on a microcosm of society in ...

In her memoir “Always Carry Salt,” Samantha Ellis builds “an ark” for the next generation of her family. It involves culture, ...

Numerous Ethiopian athletes were denied U.S. visas, preventing them from competing in the World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Florida. The visa rejections mean Ethiopia cannot field full ...

History isnt as black and white as they want you to believe. When Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, it wasnt the Christians who saved them, but it was the Muslims. They gave them refuge when the ...