Many tourists love learning about a new place, but some countries are currently dangerous and are on the US government's ...

Purim is a strange holiday for Jews, and nothing is stranger than its central piece: Megillat Esther (the Book of Esther). We ...

A group of archaeologists has successfully deciphered a4,000-year-old collection of cuneiform tablets that reveal ominous ...

Purim, therefore, is the prototype for Jewish survival during exile. The Divine Providence hidden in apparently random events ...

Jennifer Johnston’s relationship with her father is far from her whole story but she remained wrongly convinced she was still in his shadow ...

This clay cylinder’s inscription details Cyrus’ conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE. In short, Cyrus turned the town around. Its previous ruler undermined local religious traditions, oppressed the ...

This time, the Babylonians defeated the Jewish armies and exiled a large portion of the Jewish population to Babylon ... it suited their fancy. Muslim rulers frequently expelled or forcibly ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans built astonishing monuments like the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and while only the Great Pyramid of Giza remains intact, we’ve ...