Huqoq mosaic, parting of the Red Sea (photo by Jim Haberman, all images courtesy UNC) Animals marching onto Noah’s Ark and the parting of the Red Sea feature in two mosaic floor panels discovered in a ...

A 1,600-year-old Jewish bath, also known as a mikveh, was recently uncovered in Italy – and the find is the oldest of its kind in Europe. On March 10, Italian officials announced the discovery, which ...

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical region of Israel and the surrounding area. The “mikveh,” used by religious Jews ...

BUKHARA — You could have heard a pin drop as a small group of men (and two women) gathered on a recent Friday night inside the 300-year-old synagogue of Bukhara, Uzbekistan, on what was once the Silk ...

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