Ever since Joseph, coat torn, was tossed into that fateful pit by his brothers in the book of Genesis, the Twelve Tribes of Israel have never fully reconciled. Benjamin, Naftali, Issachar, Judah and ...

(JTA) — A bumper crop of etrogs is taking a more direct route to Israel this year, thanks to a historic confluence of geopolitics and religious observance. Once home to the largest Jewish community in ...

An otherwise delightful show of some of the traditional weavings and jewelry of Berber tribes, now at Jerusalem's Museum of Islamic Arts, pays scant attention to the historic links between the Berbers ...

The quake came on the eve of a Jewish pilgrimage and during the local harvest season for etrogs, used in the observance of Sukkot. (JTA) — Jews and Jewish sites appear to have largely been spared ...

The interior of the El Ghriba synagogue -- the oldest synagogue in North Africa -- on the Tunisian island of Djerba in 2009. My North African Jewish Berber grandparents came from Djerba, Tunisia, to ...