Like many minority groups, Jews have always created ways of adapting to the societies in which they live, but whose culture they do not totally share. And one thing that means is a collection of ...

A Yiddish translation of “Arabian Nights” sounds like the set-up to a Borscht Belt joke. Yet, as a recent finalist for a National Jewish Book Award shows, such a work is not only real, it testifies to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. You can find me at the confluence of food, beverage and travel. On Sunday, June 22nd, over 2,000 New Yorkers boated out to ...

Chanukah and Hanukkah refer to the same holiday, and both are correct spellings for the Jewish Festival of Lights. While the "Hanukkah" transliteration is more common in English-speaking countries, ...

Hanukkah begins on Christmas this year, marking a rare coincidence of the Jewish and Christian holidays, which occur according to different calendars. The alignment invites reflection on how two ...

I originally conceived this course as how to take material culture from one world and present it in another world. In curating culture class, we are curating a exhibition for the Fralin Museum. The ...

Hanukkah, also known as the festival of lights, is an eight-day Jewish festival commemorating the victory of the Maccabees, a group of Jewish fighters, over the Syrian-Greek army and the subsequent ...

If you are looking for authentic offerings of traditional Ashkenazi foods, you have many wonderful options in the 914. What qualifies a dish as Jewish is somewhat of a mystery, wrapped in a kreplach.

GRODNO, 11 March (BelTA) - Traditional ritual clothes, paintings, objects and photos telling about national traditions from the Museum of History and Culture of the Jews of Belarus, of the Mir Castle ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Ida Stack, who taught generations of area families Jewish traditions and customs, died Saturday (Feb. 20, 2010.) She was 88 and ...