One of Israel’s leading archaeologists, he found evidence that the writing of the Old Testament likely began much earlier ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to call early elections this spring or summer in order to maximize his ...

History is often taught as if progress moves in a straight line—from ancient Greece to Rome, from medieval Europe to the Renaissance, from industrialization to modernity. Africa, in this telling, ...

The arson of a synagogue in Mississippi recalls incidents from the Torah and from throughout our history, writes.

The Iran of the mullahs transfers its capital abroad, sanctuarizes its security apparatus, fires on its own population while ...

New research suggests a long-overlooked bas-relief in King Sennacherib’s palace in modern-day Mosul, Iraq, destroyed with ...

From smart materials and medical breakthroughs to climate solutions, ancient history, and animal communication ...

I have always been fascinated by the idea of walking through history, imagining the lives of people who lived thousands of ...

October 7 did not create the crisis: It removed the insulation. What Zionism needs now is not another campaign. It requires a ...

Bombay Duck is a rigorously researched, delightfully anecdotal history of food in Bombay/Mumbai that is as colourful and cosmopolitan as the city itself.

The pre-dawn blaze at the state's largest and oldest synagogue, previously bombed by the Ku Klux Klan, has yet to be formally ...

(JTA) — In December 1778, as the American Revolution still raged, a Jewish writer in Charlestown opened a newspaper and saw ...