From Tehran's prisons to Haifa's shelters, Payam Feili, who fled his native country as a gay writer, expresses his concern ...

Frederick Douglass used the words of Psalm 137 in his famous speech, ‘What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?’ For centuries, ...

I’m old enough to remember this song my parents’ generation loved to sing in church. Here is a verse: “This world is not my home, I’m just a passing through. My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond ...

The war was sparked by a complex mix of territorial disputes, mostly over the contested Shatt al-Arab waterway, a vital oil ...

Jewish tradition is clear: the Torah was never corrupted—only neglected or misunderstood at times by its people. The rebukes of the prophets are never about a lost or falsified Torah, but about Israel ...

One of the most poignant examples in history of a leader who failed to confront the real enemies of his people while ...

The kingdom of Israel was overthrown in ca. 722 BCE by the Neo-Assyrian empire, centred in what is now Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia), and Israel” ceased to be a geographic entity of the ancient Middle ...

In Iran the Foreign Minster, Kamal Karrazi, told Arafat, “No Muslim can allow holy Jerusalem to remain under occupation, and ...

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

This name Jesus for Christians, Allah for Muslims and YHVH for Jews, differs from all the other names that are just philosophical terms for various universal aspects or roles of God. This Divine name ...