A 1,000-year-old kiddush cup valued at up to $5M will be auctioned by Sotheby’s this fall, marking the oldest known Jewish artifact from the Middle Ages. A kiddush cup that may have been passed around ...

Estimated at $3-5 million, the silver cup bears blessings in Hebrew and Arabic, reflecting cultural ties in medieval Khorasan. An ancient Jewish ritual cup, believed to be the oldest known Kiddush cup ...

In the early 2010s, antiquity dealers began approaching Israeli institutions with startling offerings: centuries-old manuscripts that had been found in the caves of northern Afghanistan. Spanning ...

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JTA — A kiddush cup that may have been passed around the Friday night dinner table during the reign of Ghengis Khan will be available for auction this fall. The rare remnant of the Silk Road, the ...

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Israel, as the Jewish nation-state, is bound by its Jewish dimension to honor the highest principles of the Jewish tradition. “Kiddush Hashem” means sanctifying the name of the Creator by publicizing ...

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Israelis, it seems, have recently accustomed themselves to two types of behavior more than they did in the past: they put a lot of energy into unnecessary gestures and they invest a lot of unnecessary ...

Robert Besser is a news editor who has worked in television and newspapers in theUnited States, Asia and the Middle East. It was Friday, May 14, 1948, just hours before David Ben Gurion was to declare ...

A kiddush cup that may have been passed around the Friday night dinner table during the reign of Ghengis Khan will be available for auction this fall. The rare remnant of the Silk Road, the ancient ...

The medieval artefact, which is inscribed with both Hebrew and Arabic, will be on display for a limited time before heading to auction The Cup of Joy, a medieval Kiddush cup inscribed with both Hebrew ...