“Every time she and I came here, there was always a sadness when we knew we had to leave,” Trank said of the country whose ...

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One of the curiosities in “The Story of Hebrew” by Lewis Glinert (Princeton University Press) is that the author manages to write a history of the Hebrew language without using a single Hebrew letter ...

The Jewish people possess an inherent right to live in peace and security within their ancestral homeland. This statement is ...

The word Jew is a household term, just as Christian and Muslim are. But where does the word Jew come from? The Hebrew version is יְהוּדִי for a male and יְהוּדִיָּה for a female. These are the Hebrew ...

All cultures have a tendency to make their building blocks into part of a collective myth, oversimplifying them in textbooks and in the collective consciousness of their members. We Jews are hardly ...

The origin of the Japanese is traced to the Hebrew race by Dr. Jenichiro Oyabe, author of “Origin of Japan and the Japanese.” Dr. Oyabe asserted in an interview with a representative of the “Japan ...

Obituaries celebrated the architect behind the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the ...

In a recent piece in these pages, I addressed a popular myth: that Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Khazar pagans who converted to Judaism. Though this idea gets a lot of attention, it is fully based ...