Christopher Columbus was genetically Jewish, Spanish researchers say New research uses DNA analysis to add to longtime speculation about the explorer’s identity.
Ideas From snout to tail, a 3,000-year history of Jews and the pig A professor of religious studies explores how the pig became the ultimate Jewish taboo — and an inadvertent marker of Jewish identity.
Sandy Koufax famously didn’t pitch on Yom Kippur in 1965. But did he go to synagogue? We spoke to a man who swears he sat behind the legendary pitcher at Temple of Aaron in Minnesota.
Jewish Broadway stars surprise NY congregation with a rendition of ‘Seasons of Love’ during Rosh Hashanah services