For Yiddish educators, creating child heroes was an emotionally safe way to relate Holocaust history to their students ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Once a year on Tisha B’Av, the 9th day on the Jewish month of Av, we get together to read the Book of Lamentations and mourn the Temple’s destruction while praying that we very soon ...

There’s nothing to celebrate about Israel's 20th anniversary of the full withdrawal from Gaza and from four Jewish ...

I have been trying to think of the right way to begin such a letter, but I think the only way is to say it directly and clearly: We are living through a historic emergency. Children in Gaza are ...

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