Once upon a time, Jews lived in the medieval hilltop village of Ayllón, 90 miles north of Madrid. Expelled from Spain in 1492, there was

Was the original purpose of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice something other than what has been traditionally depicted over the centuries? Was the background to its creation other

I am standing at my white kitchen counter feeding sticky ingredients into a food mixer: clumps of dates, walnut pieces from a cellophane packet, slices

The plain concrete building with a faded pink-and-blue exterior along a commercial street in Mantanzas, a small city on the northern coast of Cuba, looked

Dan Ben-Canaan slowly lifts the rumpled, yellowed sheet of paper and shows it to his audience. A professor of research and writing methodology at Heilongjiang

Kingston, Jamaica, is not customarily associated with a colorful Jewish past. But the hundred or so delegates attending the annual conference of the Union of

In record numbers and a joyous mood, some 3,000 Jewish visitors flew to Morocco last spring from countries such as Israel, Canada and France. The

Thousands of men and women who claim descent from forced converts have set out on an emotional odyssey to regain their families’ original faith—Judaism. Growing