Farmers skinned cats about 1,000 years ago in Spain, possibly for the medieval cat-fur industry or a "magical" pagan ritual, a new study finds. Scientists found evidence of the skinning at the ...

Pagans in northern Europe's Baltic region imported horses from neighboring Christian countries during the late medieval period to sacrifice in funeral rituals, a study has revealed. The research, ...

Reading the Torah, there is no doubt about motherhood’s important role in Jewish literature and life. Women are not, however, expected to place motherhood ahead of their own well-being. For example, ...

Now a commander in the U. S. Naval Reserve, Samuel Eliot Morison '08, on leave of absence from his post as Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, wrote the following history of Harvard ...

An early medieval archeological site in the eastern Netherlands likely hosted cult rituals involving the “devil’s money.” But while the ruins indicate a local belief system based on pre-Christian ...

BERLINBERLIN — A U.N. committee on Sunday named a group of medieval Jewish sites in the eastern German city of Erfurt as a World Heritage Site, the second time Jewish heritage in Germany has been ...

Each Haggadah tells not just the story of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, but also the story of its owners. Containing worn, loose or torn out pages, covered with wine stains and littered ...

(The Conversation) — Recent generations of Jewish women have looked to reinvent rituals marking the most meaningful moments in their lives, especially childbirth and motherhood. Women are not, however ...