Sacramento State community members came together for a “Freedom Seder,” blending tradition with conversation about ...

What connection could there be between the commandment of the red heifer—one of the most mysterious commandments in the Torah ...

In 1975, a largely unknown 23-year-old actor named Carol Kane starred in Joan Micklin Silver’s film Hester Street as Gitl, an Eastern European Jewish immigrant in Manhattan’s Lower East Side around ...

I love bringing people together through food,” she says, and unlike in Brooklyn, she found little competition for selling ...

Spending 24 hours eating only Jewish food offers a focused look at a cuisine shaped by history and tradition. Each meal reflects regional influences, religious practices, and family customs passed ...

Preparations for Passover in Brooklyn blend centuries-old rituals with modern traditions unique to each family.

Even if you’ve never met him before, Roman Soibelis will be excited to see you. His eyes bright, his smile, his kippah advertising the coming of the messiah, he’ll welcome you into his home with a ...

Theologian Edward Kessler, in his 2005 book A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations, defines Messianic Judaism as a religious movement consisting of both Jews and non-Jews who follow traditional ...

The Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies offers undergraduates the opportunity to earn a minor in Yiddish and East European Jewish Culture. The broad objective for the minor is for students ...