Hearing the Silent Aleph -   Vayakhel   ©️Rabbi Mordecai Finley, 2025 This week’s Torah portion, Va-yakhel, is the first of ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...

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In everyday life we frequently meet people who seem to be walking around in disguise. One is disguised as someone arrogant, another as someone vulgar, and a third as someone apathetic – but what we ...

As in all things, when we read a pas-sage presented to us in the Lectionary from the holy Gospel, we need to place it into ...

Objects discovered during the excavation include oil lamps decorated with the menorah (seven-branched lampstand) and the ...

Tens of thousands of cuneiform tablets are sitting around, just waiting to be translated. It’s not an easy job; the ancient language is based on wedge-shaped pictograms and includes more than 1,000 ...

The Hamas terror group on Saturday clarified that they reject Israel's proposal to extend the first stage of the ceasefire deal. Hamas spokesman Hazem Qasem added ...

Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist group, delivered the bodies of four hostages to the Red Cross early Thursday in exchange for Israel's release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, days before ...

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...

Thousands of mourners in Israel gathered on the streets for the funeral procession of Shiri Bibas and her two sons. Ms Bibas, 32, was kidnapped with four-year-old Ariel, and nine-month-old Kfir ...