Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?

Controversial excavations under the Holy City uncover layers of history and stoke long-standing tensions. Below the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Christian Quarter, Father Samuel ...

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

These three key religious texts all offer justifications for defensive wars. But they also stress the importance of peace.

In a world where relationships are often shaped by fleeting emotions, self-interest, and ever-shifting cultural values, the biblical vision of marriage remains deeply relevant. It is not only timeless ...

Overlooking the town from a tranquil hillside, the Stolac Jewish Cemetery is among the oldest and most significant Sephardic burial sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dating back to at least the 17th or ...

Since returning home, I have learned that this church is the Mother Church of Apulia, Portugal, and dates to the 12th century ...

Wars are often waged in the name of religion. So what do key texts from Christianity, Islam and Judaism say about the justification for war?Authors ...

The Sumerians lived in Mesopotamia from about 4500 to 1750 B.C.E., and developed a number of technologies that changed the ...

The time has come for the Jewish community, locally and broadly speaking, to pay attention to part of our community that has ...

Tarun Vijay Counting number of people benefitted materially and creating impressive graphs to showcase progress of the nation ...

The news of Israel’s unprecedented attack on Iran’s nuclear and military sites that killed some of Iran’s most powerful men — military and nuclear leaders — arrived late Thursday (June 12) in the U.S.