Researchers used AI to decode a Babylonian text lost for 1,000 years, revealing new details about life and culture in ancient ...

Here’s a far fetched notion: for most of human history, humans used to worship gods who fought, fell in love, and even had favorite cities. Zeus might have thrown lightning bolts, but he was not ...

In Yiddish, home is di heym (די היים). It is not just a location, but a world: the smell of chicken soup, the echo of curses ...

The Old Testament in the light of the ancient East by Jeremias, Alfred, 1864-1935; Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter), 1857-1920; Beaumont, C. L., Mrs., tr Publication date 1911 Topics Bible ...

The watermelon has long inspired artists, such as Giuseppe Recco's Still Life With Fruit (1634-1695). The first color sketches of the red-fleshed, sweet watermelon in Europe can be found in a ...

War has gone on for many years and leaves scars that don't heal. Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Iran wars are ...

Twenty-two years ago we were told that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq so we “shocked and awed” the people of Iraq, destroying their infrastructure, universities, hospitals, neighborhoo ...

Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef issued a religious decree allowing both Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews to wed during the mourning period in light of the war, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi ...

The ornate discs, found in a grave during a 2018 excavation at Khirbat Ibreika in the Sharon region, were probably intended to enhance carrying handles for a coffin, according to ...

In a recent teaching, Rabbi Schneider explored the deeply personal and spiritual implications of the first of the Ten ...

“In Georgia I wear it as a scarf, but in Iran this is my chador, my obligation” – An Iranian girl told me, as I queued to ...

The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one” — Bill Gates’s epithet for ...