This Hanukkah, Learn About the Holiday’s Forgotten Heroes: Women

The eight-day Jewish festival of Hanukkah commemorates ancient Jews’ victory over the powerful Seleucid empire, which ruled ...
JSTOR Daily

Fifteenth to Seventeenth-Century CE Hebrew Epitaphs from the Jewish Cemetery at Ẓefat (Safed)

'Atiqot / עתיקות, כרך‎ 110, The Ancient Written Wor(l)d (2023), pp. 301-334 (34 pages) More than 100 previously undocumented Hebrew epitaphs (many of them fragmentary) dating from the fifteenth to the ...
Jewish Journal

The Women Who Saved Moses and the Israelites

The liturgy of Passover is particularly focused on thanking G-d for enabling the Israelite slaves to escape ancient Egypt. And when we anecdotally tell the story of Passover, whether to small children ...