A 42-year-old Yemenite rabbi was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment today following his conviction on charges of having practiced sorcery promised to sell the crown and throne of Biblical King ...

(JTA) The National Library of Israel has announced the acquisition of 60,000 Yemenite Jewish manuscripts and text fragments which made up one of the most significant private collections of Judaica in ...

Two men who reportedly planned to assassinate Yemen’s chief rabbi were arrested. Agents in Yemen on Nov. 19 arrested the men involved in a plot to kill Rabbi Yahya Yusuf Musa, the head of the small ...

In the first decades of the 20th century, Yemenite Jewry found itself torn into two opposing camps, the Dardaim, under the leadership of Rabbi Yihya Qafih, and their opponents. Both camps claimed ...

In Jewish history, with its centuries of wandering and ritualized longing for a land most never actually saw, circumstances created not so straightforward answers to this question. For the creators of ...

View of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Kfar Shiloach near Jerusalem's Old City. Knesset Member Nurit Koren (Likud) is most famous for her efforts to expose the truth regarding the kidnapped ...

“It’s the largest Hebrew manuscript collection assembled since the early 20th century,” said one scholar. (JTA) — The National Library of Israel has announced the acquisition of 60,000 Yemenite Jewish ...