Jewish women in the early modern period played a role in all Jewish societies, though they were often limited in the amount that they were permitted to...

In the early modern period, from about 1400 to 1775, about 100,000 people were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe and British America. Between 40,000...

commentaries in the Midrash and Talmud are ancient, with the rise of the printing press and movable type in the early modern period, Jewish histories and early editions...

Jewish Christians were the followers of a Jewish religious sect that emerged in Judea during the late Second Temple period (first century AD). These Jews...

dominant in Jewish and, in some cases, Christian prayer." The structure of the modern Jewish prayer service was established during the period of the Tannaim...

In modern Rabbinic Judaism, the traditional method of determining Jewishness relies on tracing one's maternal line. According to halakha, the recognition...

Jewish history in the ancient period and in the early Middle Ages. Although the myth of an exile from the Jewish homeland (Palestine) does exist in popular...

The early modern period in history is around c. 1500–1789, but the label "early modern philosophy" is typically used to refer to a narrower period of time...

Temple period or post-exilic period in Jewish history denotes the approximately 600 years (516 BCE – 70 CE) during which the Second Temple stood in the city...

this alteration in title, these women are often perceived as equivalent to ordained rabbis. Notwithstanding early examples in Jewish biblical and rabbinic...