According to the authors, what connects these distant communities to the rest of the known Jewish world is shared pride in their heritage and passionate devotion to God…

Aviya Kushner has written a work of popular scholarship that has a point or two to make about what the Bible has come to mean to English speakers.

When a respected veteran diplomat like Ross offers guidance to American and Israeli policymakers, we would all be wise to listen.

The Ten Commandments are familiar to most and some may know of the seven Noahide laws, but in the hierarchy of biblical lists, the 613 mitzvot is a…

In her new memoir, Rita Gabis tells of unearthing facts about her once-beloved grandfather, the chief of police from 1941 to 1943 under the Gestapo in the Lithuanian…

In his controversial new history of the Holocaust, Timothy Snyder argues that anti-Semitism cannot fully explain the behavior of those involved in the murder of the Jews.

Here are the facts about Broken, Traci Slatton’s newest historical fiction: Its protagonist, Alia, is a fallen angel with a voracious appetite for sex who descends to earth…

Drawing on the opened Vatican archives covering Pius XI’s papacy, this invaluable book sheds light on the pope’s early support for Mussolini as well as the Vatican’s institutional…