Rosslyn Chapel in Edinburgh has widely been thought to be the final resting place of the ark, thanks to a conspiracy peddled ...

I grew up in a secular Jewish household. But I always wondered how the Torah had continued to captivate people for thousands ...

Imagine starting your morning sipping coffee by the Red Sea, and by afternoon standing at the foot of the mighty Karnak ...

Garish gold statues featuring Donald Trump’s visage are nothing new at the president’s home away from home. The internet is ...

For centuries, people have left all sorts of notes in summit registers. I looked through 100 years of love letters and spontaneous exaltation, including my own family's, to find out why.

It opens with Moses delivering the Ten Commandments amidst the Israelites’ rebellion, depicting the golden calf incident and Moses’ destruction of the tablets in anger. The narrative then ...

The Talmud presents us with a most unusual teaching, some of which for many may be familiar (Shabbat 68a): The Torah says, “And Moses ... Sinai, its acceptance was coerced, with God dangling a ...

After preaching on the Transfiguration of Christ on Mount Tabor in Luke's ... for what is to come ahead, like Moses’ carrying of the tablet down Sinai’s height. To lead God’s people to ...

and Jews the Holy Day of Shavuot when God gave a Torah ‘Israel could not refuse’ to Moses and Banu Israel at Mount Sinai. I begin with a Rabbinic teaching (called a Midrash) which elucidates a ...

This first-glimpse-of-Uluru selfie will light up their socials, only it’s not. The mountain is Artilla (Mount Conner), a doppelganger dubbed “Fooluru” that has been duping visitors since the ...