And for more than 80 years, opposition to Israel had defined the Middle East. For the Islamic Republic of Iran, it still does ...

The Gilded Age' actor Morgan Spector talks about playing 19th-century tycoon George Russell and how his outspoken leftist politics inform the role.

In the mid-1950s Jews were being depict­ed not as alien or disreputable immi­grants but rather as mem­bers of a respect­ed ...

A century before LaCroix or Spindrift were refrigerator staples, factories in New York City were carbonating gallons and ...

Out of all the scripture and poetry and midrash that fills Jewish history, all the mysticism and folktales, all the prophecy ...

With 23 districts, choosing where to stay in Budapest can be tricky if you're not familiar with the city. Here are five areas ...

Christians celebrate the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Jesus. To mark the occasion, Le Monde charts the ...

In 1573, a region of France declared war on werewolves. They seemed to be everywhere. But what were they? These weren't your ...

When the folks at Temple B’nai Israel first heard that Jakobs wanted to take pieces of their synagogue, they weren’t sure what to make of him. A Jewish cattleman from ... They wrapped them, took them ...

The Palestinian movement is at a crossroads. Fatah and its foremost rival for power, Hamas, are both weakened, the former by internal divisions and unpopularity and the latter by the ...

Researchers cross-verified the AI model with texts that have already been convincingly dated. They found that it could predict the age of manuscripts just from the writing style with an uncertainty of ...