In 1704, Isaac Newton sat down with pen and paper and tried to calculate the end of the world. He didn’t use a telescope or a ...

The WHC recognizes, in particular, “the architecture of the Mamluk period between 1250 and 1517. The centre of interest of the town was the site of Al-Ibrahimi Mosque / the Tomb of the Patriarchs, ...

Using mostly the local Sabean language (and in rare cases Hebrew), this god is alternatively described as Rachmanan – the Merciful – the “Lord of the Heavens and Earth,” the “God of Israel” and “Lord ...

Leaders of the Syrian-Jewish community meet with President Herzog and propose new paths for dialogue and reconciliation with ...

The geographic terms “Israel” and “Palestine” have a long history and specific connotations for Jews and Arabs with respect ...

Central to the UDHR in Article 13 (b): “Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his ...

Nehemiah was the Emperor Cyrus’ cup-bearer and conveyed to Cyrus his distress at the enslavement of the Jewish people by the ...

The forty years in the Wilderness are coming to an end. In this week’s Torah reading, Matot and Masei, we are reminded of the ...

That’s why we sang the Hashkiveinu. By praying for a shelter of peace to last the night, the richest and the poorest alike ...

The October 7th attack could have been repulsed, “conceptzia” or no “conceptzia”. Easily. The lack of preparedness is not ...

When Jews mourn the two destructions of Jerusalem and its Holy Temple on the 9th of Av (August 3, 2025 this year) they begin with reading the Biblical Book of Lamentations and feel tears of sorrow, ...

The explanation is that only one of one God’s ‘names’ is a personal name; all the other ‘names’ are appellations that refer to one of God’s many attributes or character traits. As the Qur’an states: ...