A forgotten folk ritual, widespread in Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, saw residents assemble on the Shabbat before Passover outside the doors of men afflicted with fungal infections of the ...

Diaspora is the unifying experience of the Jewish people. Cobbling life together during fits and starts of settlement, exile, and persecution, Jews have always had to build communities out of whatever ...

If you spend any time at all with people under the age of, say, 12, you might — might — know about Object Shows. An Object Show is, for the grown-ups, an animated series that features a large cast of ...

The objects are as small as a tepary bean and as big as San Xavier del Bac. Some are quite old, like the spear points left behind some 13,000 years ago by the Paleo-Indians called Clovis. Some are as ...