Rachel Cockerell's "Melting Point" touches on Zionism, assimilation and a short-lived effort to divert Jewish immigrants from ...

Kabbalah intertwines with Greek philosophy, from Neoplatonism to Pythagorean symbols, shaping Jewish mystical thought.

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

Tal Shoham was freed from captivity in Gaza 505 days after Hamas militants abducted him. He said there were times during his ...

According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

In 1872, a Nebraska newspaper editor and tree lover named J. Sterling Morton proposed dedicating a day to planting trees in ...

Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

JNF, Amir Chodorov is working around the clock to commemorate the lives of each of the hundreds of people slaughtered there ...

The Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs went into effect early April 9. Within hours, President Trump paused them for 90 days, instead applying a 10% universal tariff for all affected countries ...

If a person is nearing the end of life, they may experience changes in their breathing, eating and drinking, and mental state. The symptoms and outlook for liver cancer may vary for each person ...

Over time, untreated high blood sugar can lead to serious and even life threatening complications. Type 2 diabetes also puts you at risk for certain health conditions that can reduce life expectancy.