Archeologists recently uncovered an historic 1,600-year-old Jewish bath known as a mikveh in Ostia Antica, the archaeological ...

The name “Purim” means “lots” in ancient Persian, referring to the lots Haman cast to select the date of his proposed genocide. When Haman decided to massacre the Jewish people of Persia ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...