Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. Egypt has reopened one of ...

Egypt’s oldest Jewish synagogue, Ben Ezra Synagogue, has reopened after undergoing restoration work – said a statement from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. Named after Jewish scholar and ...

A Yom Kippur prayer book fragment from the Cairo Genizah, circa 11th/ 12th century, National Library of Israel Collection. Photo credit: National Library of Israel A groundbreaking Israeli-based ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Researchers in Israel are hoping to make new discoveries about Jewish history by loading a digital database of manuscripts stretching back a thousand years into a new ...