Jewish families in Lancaster honor Shavuot with a Torah reading, dairy buffet and reflection on timeless values rooted in the ...

Jewish families commemorated Lag B'Omer, which marks the end of an ancient plague and heeds Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai's call ...

How Did the Egyptian Calendar Contribute to the Modern Calendar?   While some earlier civilizations had created calendars, the Egyptian calendar contributed heavily to the modern calendar. The ...

There are 26 commandments in the Torah that can only be performed in Israel. No other religion mandates practices to be performed only in Israel.The post Why denying Zionism rejects ...

LOS ANGELES, May 28 – Former Israeli hostage Eliya Cohen, who was held captive by the terror group Hamas for 505 days and released in February, told Israeli-Americans and American Jews that “fighting ...

This calendar included the dates of Sabbaths, holidays, and fast days, providing a Hebrew date for every day of the war.….The Jewish underground heard about this calendar and copied it ...

The clay seal, or bulla, was found in a Jerusalem dig. Shukron said today the seal bears the ancient Hebrew script used during the period of the first biblical Jewish Temple. He says pottery found ...

Two recently discovered ancient gold rings set with garnets reveal how Greek trends and customs became part of life in ...

It was then that he turned to the ancient Jewish figure of Ruth. “The Holy Scriptures,” Elliott concluded, “tell us of a humble handmaiden who long, faithfully, and patiently gleaned in ...