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• Italy’s only female rabbi is on a mission to expand the tribe

  August 26, 2015 10:28am

  Barbara Aiello searches for “hidden” Jews, takes on the Italian establishment and officiates at interfaith weddings, all in the name of strengthening the Jewish community.

• At European art fair, collectors increasingly seek Jewish objects

  March 20, 2015 3:38pm

  “Ten years ago there was hardly anything at all, and now there are several stands and some stands with groupings in [Jewish] objects,” says one curator at The European Fine Art Fair.

• Decades after he fled, Austria celebrates Nobel laureate Martin Karplus’ amateur photography

  January 29, 2015 3:05pm

  The Vienna-born octogenarian chemist took the photographs on his travels in the 1950s but only began exhibiting them publicly a decade ago.

• ‘Homely’ ancient rock adds evidence of King David’s existence

  December 15, 2014 5:26pm

  A groundbreaking inscription receives scant attention, despite widespread public interest in whether or not archaeology proves or disproves the accuracy of Bible stories.

• 600,000 virtual Jews

  October 11, 2006 9:00am

  Are 600,000 virtual Jews just as good as the real thing? A Yeshiva University student says yes, sort of, but his quest to create an online community raises halachic questions that were inconceivable before the Digital Age.