Jews rebuilt their community in the decades after a pogrom and before the expulsion of Jews from England in 1290. (JTA) — Earlier this month, the small Jewish community in the British city of York ...

Rabbi Elisheva Salamo arrived in York from California last week after decades of pulpit work in the United States, Switzerland and South Africa. (JTA) — For the first time in 800 years, the British ...

I booked a tour in York to learn more about England’s uneven Jewish history and found out even more than I expected.

PhD 1978, State University of New York at Binghamton MA, State University of New York at Binghamton BA, State University of New York at Binghamton Dr. Goldy specializes in the social history of ...

About two-thirds of Jews today—or roughly ten million people—are Ashkenazi, referring to a recent origin from Eastern and Central Europe. They reside mostly in the United States and Israel. Ashkenazi ...

The Jewish Museum in New York is opening an exhibit featuring medieval religious manuscripts, many on display for the first time. The manuscripts come from the Bodleian Library at Oxford College in ...

Seventeen bodies found at the bottom of a medieval English well were likely Jews who were murdered in an anti-Semitic massacre more than 800 years ago, scientists have revealed. The massacre took ...

For the first time in 800 years, the British city of York, whose Jewish population was decimated in a medieval pogrom, will be home to a rabbi. Rabbi Elisheva Salamo arrived in York from California ...