Last year, about two hundred red haired Israeli Jews gathered for a “>Stav Shaffir, the barely thirty year old Member of the Knesset whose hair is vibrant red. Stav, by the way, is Hebrew for ...

For centuries, red hair was feared and reviled – especially when it came to Europe’s Jews. In honor of National Redhead Day, we’ve outlined the tenuous connection between Jews and the ...

Moreover, red hair, which was apparently more common among Jews than among Christians, was widely associated in the Middle Ages with Jews and the devil, both being depicted with it in many ...

(Jewish Daily Bulletin) A red-haired Russian Jew is the hardest subject of mesmerism, according to Howard Thurston, the magician, who is appearing at a theater here. This type, Mr. Thurston says ...

Then, during the Middle Ages, red hair became fixed as a mark of the “other” onto Europe’s Jews, proving the infinite flexibility of prejudice against both physical appearance and groups ...

Now, it must be said that most white Jewish women aren’t woefully under-catered for by the beauty industry – yet our hair is sometimes a tool of self-deprecation.

In what may be the first use of vuvuzelas in opera, the blaring horns popularised by South African soccer featured in the premiere of Hungarian conductor Ivan Fischer's "The Red Heifer" about a ...