Soviet repression caused most Georgian Jews to flee, leaving behind a 2,500-year-old history whose memory is beginning to ...

In a few days all over the world, an event called Easter or Easter Sunday will be celebrated. As a young man growing up, I can recall getting dressed for ...

What do Pope Benedict XVI, Barack Obama, Naftali Bennett, and Hosni Mubarak all have in common? Yes, they were all political leaders in the early 21st century, but this column is about names, not poli ...

From when the Jews first came to Iraq in 597BCE, deported there by Nebuchadnezzar, and picked up the local language, Aramaic, infusing it with Hebrew to develop Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (the ...

We've plumbed the depths of darkness to assemble a list of the very best gothic boy names and gothic girl names. Some have their roots in stories and literature of the macabre. Ot ...

Sometimes when you’re naming a child (or crafting a character for a game or novel), an ordinary name just won’t do. You may want a name that hints at darkness and otherworldly mystery—that ...

In the Babylonian Talmud (Mas.Taanit 5a), Psalm 122:3 is brought to prove that since Jerusalem is “knit” or “compacted” together, there must be two of them. The Hebrew word חבורה includes in it the ...

Significance of Spring Equinox in different cultures — The ancient Babylonian calendar began with the first full moon after the March equinox, a tradition passed on by many civilisations that ...

A well-known personal trainer from Tel Aviv was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of having drugged and raped a client, in a case that is largely being kept under a gag order. While details of the ...

pinning its origins to Jewish settlers who fled the Holy Land after the Babylonian invasion – and the destruction of the Temple of Solomon – in 586BC. You will struggle to spot any clear ...

The Book of Baruch 2, Chapter 6, states that he saw an angel remove the Ark from the Second Temple, allowing it to be 'swallowed by the Earth' before the Babylonian invasion, where it would remain ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...