By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their homeland in Judaea across the Mediterranean and there were major Jewish communities in Syria, Egypt, and Greece. Practicing a ...

In the first century of our era there were many sects and schools in Jewish society. We hear about the Essenes, of course, the Jews of Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls, who separated themselves from ...

LONDON — Unique and chilling images of one of the first deportations of German Jews from their homes during ... part of a 19th-century fortress on the outskirts of the city, where they were ...

A Spanish historian who identified and catalogued 107 tombs in a 13th-century Jewish cemetery in Toledo ... Archaeologists first learned of the cemetery’s existence in 2008, when human bones ...