From Goering at Nuremberg to modern antisemitism, manufactured threats turn ordinary people into willing executioners.

Judaism’s moral ideas did not remain confined to one people. They shaped Christianity, Islam, Western law, and global ethical ...

Among Jews the meaning of the term has evolved – but there is still no consensus. And when people talk past one another there are real-world consequences ...

A Times Square billboard proclaims "Jesus is a Palestinian." That sentiment is historically inaccurate — and also dangerous.

In television's early days, Caesar translated Jewish humor into a language America didn’t yet know it understood.

Faith, History, and Who Belongs in Israel. The land of Israel, often called the Holy Land, is sacred to Jews, Christians, and ...

Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient ...

The remote temple of Hathor at Serabit al-Khadim was more than a mine and a sanctuary—it was a crucible of civilization. Here, amidst the sacred turquoise mines that funded pharaohs from the Great ...

The search for Apongo is a small part of historians’ ongoing work to recreate the lives of Africans taken in the ...

Earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the mighty God and receive what I commit to you, and guard them until the last times so that, when you are ordered, you may restore them, so that strangers may ...

Students from five rabbinical schools tell the Forward how they're thinking about artificial intelligence in relation to ...

Yet this framing itself is mistaken. God did not ask the Jewish people to choose between faithfulness and responsibility, ...