Israel's theological narratives fuel the Gaza war, while Palestinians fight every day for truth, their rights and survival ...

For centuries, the number 666 has stirred imaginations and inspired fear as the so-called number of the beast from the Book ...

Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a group of Judeans to return to the land of Israel under the leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah. With that act, he helped ...

A Yiddish translation of “Arabian Nights” sounds like the set-up to a Borscht Belt joke. Yet, as a recent finalist for a ...

The 7th century C.E. Arab and Arabized conquerors later had the audacity, as is occurring right up to present times, to ...

French pop historian Vincent Lemire's illustrated tome makes some loaded choices in depicting the Jewish parts of history.

AS tensions flare up between modern-day Iran and Israel — through drone warfare, cyberattacks and regional proxy clashes — the world braces for a broader conflagration. Yet beneath this geopolitical ...

Some Christians claim that the Table of Contents in their Bible lists the inspired Books. Even though found in modern Bibles, the Table of Contents is still not inspired.

Sandra first gained popularity in the 1930s, becoming a top-20 girl name for baby boomers from 1946 to 1954 and a top-10 name ...

St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has announced a new graduate program that reshapes what it means to study the ...

In Parshat Hukat, the Israelites journey through the wilderness of Zin, encamp at Kadesh, skirt Edom via the Sea of Reeds, ...

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...