Tag: Jewish history
Asenath Barzani: Remarkable Hebrew scholar
Can you fathom a young Kurdish Jewish woman in 17th century Iraq who for years served as rosh yeshivah in Mosul and as leader of the Jewish community?
Asenath Barzani was the daughter of Rabi...
In a bid to promote diversity, Egypt plans to restore Alexandria synagogue
A $2 million restoration of Egypt’s largest synagogue is the start of a government effort to keep alive the legacy of the Jewish community, whose members have largely left for Israel, France and elsewhere...
Historic Liverpool kosher butchers shopfront to be preserved with lottery grant
The shop frontage of an historic kosher butchers in Liverpool is to be preserved following the award of almost £300,000 in National Lottery funding.
P. Galkoff Family Butchers was opened in 1908 by Percy Galkoff,...
Israeli minister: We must keep Jewish historic sites safe
Keeping the Jewish Cemetery on the Mount of Olives safe is a national priority, Construction Minister Yoav Gallant said on Wednesday, on a tour at the site to oversee its security condition.
As construction minister,...
Moses Mendelssohn: Personally observant progenitor of Reform Judaism
The son of Menachem Mendel, a Torah scribe, Moses Mendelssohn (“son of Mendel”) not only studied in yeshiva and became a promising rabbinic scholar, he also pursued secular learning, particularly languages and philosophy, studying...
Earliest mosaic of Jonah and the whale found in Galilee synagogue
Unprecedented depictions of the biblical Jonah and the whale have been found at a fifth-century Roman synagogue in Israel’s lower Galilee. In the recently discovered mosaic, Jonah’s legs are shown dangling from the mouth...
Author of mysterious Voynich manuscript was Italian Jew, says scholar
One of the world’s most confounding literary mysteries may finally be, in part, solved: the author of the mysterious and as-yet untranslatable Voynich manuscript has been identified as a Jewish physician based in northern Italy, an...
Celebrating jewish american heritage month in May
Lupus. Hepatitis. Malaria. Childhood leukemia. These are just a few of the many diseases for which Gertrude Elion developed life-saving drugs. While her name is on 45 drug patents, there are many who are...