Ricki Hanley had seen the dress before. She had seen it in photographs of her mother, Judie Madorsky Perelman, at 18 — newly ...

The game, which some call a complex version of rummy, originated in China in the 19th century. In 1937, a group of Jewish ...

In the summer of 70 AD, Roman legions under Titus closed in on Jerusalem, triggering one of the most devastating sieges in ancient history. What followed would not only destroy the Second Temple and ...

A collection of dozens of ancient coins was seized after a suspected smuggling attempt from the West Bank into Israel last month, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Monday. Most of the coins date ...

I write this as a Jew, and not from the neutral air of commentary. I write from within Jewish reality, and from within one of its fractures. I do not approach Israel as a hypothesis, an experiment, or ...

The study uses the technique of microarchaeology to examine the soil collected from 35 graves at the Skateholm I and II cemeteries in southern Sweden. Finnish and Swedish researchers have discovered ...

Rome — Outside the Great Synagogue, in the narrow streets of Rome's historic Jewish quarter, Italian soldiers patrol with automatic weapons slung across their chests. It is part of a visible surge in ...

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In a study published in the journal Iran, researcher Gad Barnea has uncovered new evidence suggesting that Zoroastrian religious practices were more prevalent and left a deeper imprint on surrounding ...

(JNS) - Gumbo and Bandit, the dogs of U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his wife, dressed up ahead of the Jewish holiday of Purim, which was last week. In a video published on the U.S. ambassador's ...

For nearly 2,200 years, it lay hidden in a cave above the Dead Sea. Now, for the first time since 1968, the Great Isaiah Scroll has been unrolled to its full 24-foot length and placed on public ...