Part of ancient Jewish history is recorded in the Bible and is well known. King David established Jerusalem as the capital of the land of Israel, and King Solomon built a great temple there. In 656 BC ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a 1,500-year-old synagogue in Israel's Golan Heights, revealing new evidence of ancient ...

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California, has a new exhibit that offers visitors a deeper understanding of ancient Judaism and the early foundations of Christianity ...

Fifty years into the American experiment, in 1825, Mordecai Manuel Noah attempted to build a Jewish homeland in upstate New York. The journalist, playwright and former diplomat hoped that a gathering ...

(RNS) — The German-Jewish title with ancient roots is granted to those who exhibit significant spiritual and material leadership in their community. (RNS) — “Chaver,” an honorific with origins in ...

The protests over the war in Gaza that roiled many college campuses in the United States this past May and June raised once again the ancient specter of anti-Semitism. This year’s version of the ...

The real history of Jewish gladiators, from Reish Lakish to Kirk Douglas. In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone and ash. The ...