Frederick Douglass used the words of Psalm 137 in his famous speech, ‘What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?’ For centuries, ...

The supreme irony is that they even chose not to remember that it was Cyrus II, or Cyrus the Great of Persia, who is exalted in Judaism for freeing the Jewish people from the Babylonian captivity ...

Israel should not be as opposed to Iran as it is, because it was the Achaemenid Cyrus the Great who ended the Babylonian captivity of the Jews after he conquered the Neo-Babylonian Empire, which ...

His reign, between 597 and 589 BCE, was marked by indecision and fear, culminating in the fall of Jerusalem, the Babylonian exile and his eventual death.

Ezra, after the return from Babylonian exile, read the Torah publicly to the people—restoring their covenant, not replacing it (Nehemiah 8:1–8).

French pop historian Vincent Lemire's illustrated tome makes some loaded choices in depicting the Jewish parts of history.

Let me offer some rare praise for Donald Trump. His attack on Iran’s nuclear development sites was carefully executed. Nobody ...

Many of Dylan’s songs are replete with biblical references hearkening back to his Jewish studies in childhood.

The two peoples go way back, to at least since 586 BC, when Jews arrived in Persia after the Babylonian Exile. Many Jews left when the ayatollahs took over, but Tehran remains home to several ...