Taking my grandson on a pre-bar mitzvah tour of Israel becomes a profound exploration ... Here, Gavi and I witnessed an ancient craft brought to life. The process of creating tefillin—small ...

Might the ancient Israelites and their wives and children have been conveyed to ... wandering Jews, and as Beta Israel, the house of Israel. In Ethiopia, they engaged primarily in agriculture ...

(JTA) — Every seven years, in ancient times, Jewish men, women, and children would gather at the ... The founding of Israel in 1948 invigorated the practice of multiple laws specific to the ...