The tale of the spies reveals itself to be a kind of Jewish archetype — one which echoes throughout Jewish history in ever new iterations with subtly evolving significance.

Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a group of Judeans to return to the land of Israel under the leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah. With that act, he helped ...

Thanks to AI and modern carbon dating techniques, we have a new understanding of when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written – which could revise the story of Judea ...

Despite geopolitical tensions, dozens of Jews, including Israelis, have journeyed to shrine in Kurdish city of Alqosh since ...

From Hebrew Bible to Christian Bible: Jews, Christians and the Word of God ... The last edition of the Deuteronomistic History, the one in our Bible, comes from the sixth century BCE, ...

French pop historian Vincent Lemire's illustrated tome makes some loaded choices in depicting the Jewish parts of history.

Excerpted from Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West, out today by Josh Hammer (© 2025). Used with permission from Radius Book Group, a division of ...

In the chronicle of Jewish biblical history, two expulsions stand out. In 722 B.C.E., the Assyrians forcibly removed the Jewish inhabitants of the northern kingdom of Israel and sent them into ...

On May 21, Sarah Milgram and Yaron Lischinsky were brutally murdered in an antisemitic attack outside the Capital Jewish ...

Many Jews around the world had built their Jewish identity on the mission of creating a more just and perfect society ... A Biblical Story. By. Rabbi Moshe Taragin - 18 Av 5784 – August 22, 2024. 0.

Micaela Pavoncello, founder of Jewish Roma Walking Tours, has been sharing the history of her people – The Jews of Rome – for more than two decades. Pavoncello proudly avows that her family ...

This week in Jewish history: Biblical civil war, Jewish refugees killed by torpedo A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.