Mirna Funk says those are the Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox, and they make up the smallest part of the world's Jewish ...

Initially seen as a sect within Judaism, Christianity spread to gentile (non-Jewish) communities after Jesus’s death, emerging as a separate faith. In the late first century, alarmed by the rise ...

By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their homeland in Judaea across the Mediterranean and there were major Jewish communities in Syria, Egypt, and Greece. Practicing a ...

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A 1,600-year-old Jewish bath, also known as a mikveh ... Pictures released by officials show ancient stairs leading down to what was once used as a ritual bath. The steps show "notable traces ...

Archaeologists near Rome uncovered an ancient Jewish structure used for ritual washing. Photos show the unique find for Italy. Photo from Ostia Antica Archaeological Park On the outskirts of Rome ...

Relaxing the rules This meant taking a more relaxed approach to ancient Jewish laws about food and ... Nero's persecution of the new Christian sect was brief and, in the first century at least ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...