A scholar claims to have deciphered Cryptic B, a mysterious alphabet in the Dead Sea Scrolls long thought impossible to read.

She has become a storyteller in a very Jewish sense, turning emotion into meaning and pain into poetry.And like the best of ...

Rachel Kadish’s The Weight of Ink is a novel whose characters feel as alive as the ideas they wrestle with, as though they ...

PM Benjamin Netanyahu has approved 'Aleph' as the new Mossad deputy director, a veteran of the agency. The move comes days ...

TEL AVIV — New footage of six Israeli hostages shows them celebrating the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah while being held captive ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...

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Reem Alsalem, the UN rapporteur on violence against women, claimed that “no independent investigation found that rape took ...

In Vayishlach, this week’s Torah portion, the third patriarch’s name gets changed during a famous encounter. Or does it?