Hakan T. Karateke, cultural historian of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, will present "New Approaches to Ottoman Jewry," from 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday, May 3, at Oakton's Skokie campus, 7701 N.

Despite the esoteric title, this exploration of Judeo-Spanish communities is more than a scholarly treatise. Angel, rabbi of Shearith Israel, the Spanish-Portuguese synagogue in New York, grew up in ...

After WWI, the Ottoman Empire was no more, and the British took control of the land known as Palestine. The 1917 Balfour Declaration had declared Great Britain’s support for the establishment of ...

The first Jewish Museum in Turkey was opened in Istanbul on Nov. 25. The museum is located in the Zulfaris Synagogue, which was transformed into a museum and can be found in the Karakoy district close ...

During my childhood in the 1960s and 70s in the USSR, the only books published about Jews were ideological works that criticized Zionism, Israel and what the Soviets considered the “national Jewish ...