Tehrangeles” in West Los Angeles is home to the largest Iranian community outside Iran. This cultural enclave, also known as ...

Thousands of Syria’s Jews left in recent decades. But after Assad’s ouster and easing of sanctions, they can now reconnect ...

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human ...

Modern values have transformed many Jewish couples’ weddings, just as they have transformed the Christian wedding. Some ...

Scientists have decoded the DNA of an ancient Egyptian man. His remains, found in a clay pot, suggest cultural links between ancient Egypt and the Fertile Crescent.

The ancient sources implying Queen Zenobia converted to Judaism are possibly accurate,” Haggai Olshanetsky, of University of Warsaw, told JNS.The post Third-century queen, target of Syrian government, ...

Traditional Jewish ceremonies, like Christian ones, marked a woman’s transition from daughter to wife − going from her ...

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

A tractate concerning Jewish monetary law from the Babylonian Talmud, scribed in 1721 by a 12-year-old Amschel Moses ...

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Jacob’s midnight wrestling match wasn’t just a dramatic turning point in the Torah it left a mark on Jewish kitchens forever.

The Bible contains a story of how a young Jewish woman named Esther became the Queen of Persia and saved the Jews from an ...