A lot, it turns out. “This was actually traditional clothing for high-society Jewish women until even the mid-20th century,” Efrat Assaf-Shapira, a curator of the museum’s vast collection of ...

What do the three have to do with the Jewish Festival of Freedom ... of Egypt because we kept three things intact: our name, our clothing, and our language” is a distillation of a few different ...

Wearing a kippah is a traditional symbol of piety, signifying that we’re always aware of God’s presence above us. It’s also seen as a Jewish mode of dress: No Jewish boy or man is seen as ...