In a recent piece in these pages, I addressed a popular myth: that Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Khazar pagans who converted to Judaism. Though this idea gets a lot of attention, it is fully based ...

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 ...

Berber Jews belonged to their tribes in this subordinate way. In the film, Hachkar walks among the ruins of the abandoned Jewish quarter of a small Berber town as an elderly man describes the close ...

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 ...