(JTA) The National Library of Israel has announced the acquisition of 60,000 Yemenite Jewish manuscripts and text fragments which made up one of the most significant private collections of Judaica in ...

In Jewish history, with its centuries of wandering and ritualized longing for a land most never actually saw, circumstances created not so straightforward answers to this question. For the creators of ...

Ask anyone who has been around these parts for, say, over 30 years, and that might conjure up images of young men beating out mesmerizing lilting percussive grooves on discarded olive containers. Then ...

JERUSALEM-- Nineteen Jews from war-torn Yemen have been brought to Israel in a covert operation, completing, according to Israeli immigration officials, the repatriation of the 2,000-year-old Yemenite ...

Memory Traces mines the rich, multi-layered, and largely hidden seams of songs chanted by Yemenite Jewish women across the generations, unbeknownst to their menfolk. Music is frequently cited as the ...

JTA — The National Library of Israel has announced the acquisition of 60,000 Yemenite Jewish manuscripts and text fragments that made up one of the most significant private collections of Judaica in ...

“It’s the largest Hebrew manuscript collection assembled since the early 20th century,” said one scholar. (JTA) — The National Library of Israel has announced the acquisition of 60,000 Yemenite Jewish ...