At its heart a celebrated UNESCO world heritage site, Uzbekistan's ancient Silk Road stop is a fascinating mix of history and ...

Often categorised based on their horn configuration, Markhors have been divided into five subspecies including Astor Markhor, Bukharan Markhor, Kabul Markhor, Kashmir Markhor and Suleiman Markhor.

All recognised subspecies—including the flare-horned, straight-horned and Bukharan markhor—are considered endangered or critically endangered.

From Art Spiegelman's childhood home to a large Bukharan Jewish population, here are the top 10 secrets of Rego Park, Queens.

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards is pushing a quota-like selection system for the borough’s 14 community boards in a controversial bid at gaining more diversity on the panels.

The Bukharan joma left me with a warm feeling about Tetzaveh. I’ll always associate it with both the Bukharan robe and the simcha of the end of the New York mask mandate.

Despite the Soviet government breaking diplomatic relations with Israel and banning Jewish aliyah at the time, 8,000 Bukharan Jews escaped from the USSR to Israel in the 1970s.

Israeli trumpeter’s unique East-West sound wins jazz prize Itamar Borochov fuses the Mideast-North African synagogue music of his Jaffa childhood with the American jazz of Armstrong, Davis and ...

The once-rich communal life of Bukharan Jews in Khujand ended last week with the passing of the city’s last remaining Jewish person.

But the once-rich communal life of Bukharan Jews in Khujand ended last week with the passing of the city’s last remaining Jewish person: Jura Abaev died Jan. 15 at the age of 93, Radio Free ...

After 3-time aliya, last Jew in Tajikistani city’s centuries-old community dies Jura Abaev was the final member of the Bukharan community in Khujand; he’d immigrated to Israel three times, but ...

100 years after the Red Army established the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic, residents are ambivalent about its legacy.