The Passover Seder and its Haggadah preserve an ancient Jewish conversation about freedom, peoplehood, and attachment to the ...

An 18-million-year-old jawbone discovered in Egypt challenges the long-held view that East Africa was the cradle of our ...

For some Sephardic Jews today, holidays provide a rare opportunity to hear the now-endangered Judeo-Spanish language.

In the summer of 70 AD, Roman legions under Titus closed in on Jerusalem, triggering one of the most devastating sieges in ...

Educational projects aim to teach younger generations about a military dictatorship that singled out Jews for "special" abuse.

Indigenous Khasi faith does not have any reference to a place of punishment. Dujok and Norok, the words used for hell, are of non-Khasi origin, derived from Dojakh in Persian (Islamic) and Narak in ...

Every year, a raft of new haggadahs promise to enliven your Passover seder. And every year, I select some for a roundup of ...

Scientists think dogs descended from an ancient population of gray wolves somewhere in Europe or Asia. Tens of thousands of ...

The oldest ancient dog genomes on record all come from a population that lived alongside Ice Age hunter-gatherers across ...

Two new studies suggest that genetically stable dogs were living among humans in Europe by about 14,000 years ago.

The remains of dogs from more than 14,000 years ago have been found in Turkey and the UK, revealing that domesticated animals ...

The famous Kabbalist, philosopher, Talmudist Rabbi Yehuda Loew ben Betzalel, known as the Maharal of Prague (1524-1609) in ...