Can we grasp the essence of something by laying bare its origins? “An origin is not just a beginning,” Steven Weitzman writes, “it is a ‘beginning that explains.’ ” In “The Origin of the Jews,” Mr.

correctionAn earlier version of this column misidentified Edwin Montagu, the British cabinet member who criticized the Balfour Declaration. This version has been updated. Benjamin Moser is the author ...

The theory advanced by some East-European historians as to the origin of the Eastern-European Jews, which recently gained much popularity among the anti-Semitic journalists of America, was put forth ...

A protester, who is an Israeli Jews of Ethiopian origin, is detained by policemen during a demonstration against what they say is police racism and brutality, after the emergence last week of a video ...

Indeed, any one of their military triumphs against the Syrians could have been considered the “miracle of Chanukah,” but it was the retaking of Jerusalem and the rededication of the Temple that ended ...

For the last four months, my 11th grade students and I have tried to make a study not only of American history, but also our public history. From Charlottesville to Emmett Till, Boston’s Faneuil Hall ...

The Turkish Ministry of Interior issued an order today which exempts Turkish Jews of Greek nationality from the Government’s directive of last March, ordering the expulsion of all Greek nationals ...

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, presented on ...

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Ezeh said that when compared with Hebrew and Igbo languages with their lexicon, there was nothing showing relatedness as ...