A genius is born, but a tzaddik is made. However, this may conflict with the pashut peshat, as Rava was impressed by Rabbi ...

At least six-and-a-half of The Ten Commandments are broken in the movie The Ten Commandments, the Cecil B. DeMille/Charlton ...

The centuries-old seder plates photographed by Theodor Harburger in the 1920s may be the only remnants we have of many Jewish families from Bavaria.The post The lost seder plates: A ...

What the crowds on Palm Sunday misunderstood about Jesus then is what many religious people still misunderstand today: Jesus ...

The Passover seder offers a lesson to America about the importance of sharing and teaching our national story to the next ...

It’s become fashionable—almost ritualistic—to lament the “unprecedented” disunity among Israelis today. Members of the public wring their hands over the loss of social cohesion that they insist used ...

Here's what a few BabyCenter Community members have in mind when they think of cool names: Whatever "cool" means to you, ...

An ancient civilization on Mars was wiped out by a nuclear attack from another alien race. It might sound like the plot of a science fiction novel, but Harvard scientist Dr John Brandenburg ...

After a century-long wait, an excavation has finally revealed the only ancient theatre on Greece's Ionian Islands. Ancient Lefkada’s theatre was first discovered in 1901, but it took until now ...

A limestone altar linked to the ancient Teotihuacan civilization stands at a recently excavated site in Tikal National Park, Guatemala. Credit: Lorena Paiz Aragón et al. / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 An ancient ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don't often think to look beyond the city walls.