Jewish ultra-Orthodox men and children, some wearing costumes, read the Book of Esther, which tells the story of the Jewish ...

The Israeli documentary Egypt, A Love Song tells the story of Souad Zaki, a Jewish chanteuse who was the star of concert halls and movies in Egypt before and after the establishment of the State of ...

The Seder plate is a central element of the Passover celebration, symbolizing the journey of the Jewish people from slavery ...

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Archaeologists excavating Ostia Antica, the ancient port city of Rome, have unearthed what is now considered the oldest ...

Archaeologists working at Ostia Antica, an ancient Roman port city, have discovered the oldest Jewish ritual bath outside of the Middle East, along with an oil lamp decorated with a menorah dated to ...

I was appreciative that the director had arranged a lectern for me; it enabled me to hide the pages of the ceremony and more ...

Much as the golem could be created only through purity of spirit and thought, we must develop contemporary machines for ...

The Romans destroyed the Temple, banished Jews and changed the names of places to erase history. It's a strategy still being emulated.

At a wedding, Jews remember the destruction of ... Three of the central holidays on the Hebrew calendar are when the ancient Jewish nation would make the pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...