This description of the teething process comes from a 3,000-year-old medical handbook from ancient Assyria and Babylonia. The ...

The minuscule artifact discovered at the Jerusalem-based Temple Mount Sifting Project may reference an official who worked ...

As Jews approach Tisha b”Av (the 9th of Av this year falls on August 3rd) it is important to remember that destruction need not lead to despair, negativity, skepticism and surrender. Each day should ...

Most non-Jews would say Jerusalem was lost twice because the Babylonians and Romans destroyed it. Both empires and their armies were very big and very strong. No one else could defeat them at that ...

Our readers delve back millennia to answer this one, looking at the ancient Sumerians, the Babylonians and the Egyptians to explain the origins of seconds and minutes ...

This is something we experience in real life, in business and in politics — players come and go, and the game goes on ...

Central to the UDHR in Article 13 (b): “Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his ...

Saturday night, August 2nd is the Jewish fast day, “9th of Av.” The Fast of Av commemorates the ancient destructions of the ...

Previously unexplored 'Area X' unearths new evidence that Josiah, the last great king of Judah, fell at the hands of the ...

It’s always fun to test our knowledge with questions from our school days. Sure, we’ve grown up and learned a lot since then, ...

Researchers have discovered evidence which suggests one of the great Biblical kings was defeated by a huge Egyptian army as ...

The Advisory Council of Victims of Abuse at the German bishops’ conference sought to open canonical proceedings against ...