Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has publicly claimed Sephardic Jewish ancestry, but he has not identified as Jewish in religion or practice, and his own account described grandparents who ...

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There is a great Torah commandment to do everything possible to bring him to a Jewish burial,” said Rabbi David Yosef.The ...

Extracting ancient DNA from teeth, an international group of scientists peered into the lives of a once-thriving medieval Ashkenazi Jewish community in Erfurt, Germany. The findings show that the ...

Venezuela’s small Jewish community is largely taking a wait-and-see approach following the ouster of socialist President Nicolas Maduro in a US military raid early Saturday. Jews in the country’s ...

Without her parents’ knowledge, her portrait was entered as a prank in a contest in 1935 to represent the ideal Aryan infant ...

No matter how many times you have ambled through the ancient alleys of Jew Town, it never fails to leave you spell bound. It could be an artifact, cafe, or nugget of history hitherto unknown, that ...

Yosef Eisenthal, a 14-year-old boy, was killed, and three were injured after a bus driver ran over ultra-Orthodox Jews during a haredi draft protest in Jerusalem on Tuesday. "We responded to a severe ...

From humble beginnings in a working-class Caracas neighbourhood to an authoritarian presidency, here is a look at Maduro’s life. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is shown 'on board the USS Iwo Jima ...

Kantika, the latest novel by accomplished Boston College author and professor of English Elizabeth Graver, is a multi-generational family saga taking place in four countries. Rebecca Cohen, the ...