The Phaistos disk from circa 1700 B.C. The signs were not engraved using a stylus but rather pressed onto the wet clay using molds or seals in a kind of ancient typesetting. One of the great ...

Israel National News' Israel desk is stopping its round-the-clock news updates at this time in honor of the Sabbath. Jerusalem candle lighting time is 17:49 on Friday. Israel National News' North ...

The prayer is among the most iconic in Judaism and dates back to ancient times ... In 2024, Yom Kippur falls on Shabbat, so the greeting of "Shabbat shalom" may also be used.

Sep. 25, 2024 — Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China, dating back approximately 3,600 years.

On the other hand, some say that since it is a Day of Judgment, there is no commandment to rejoice on it, except as on Shabbat, since it is a ‘mikra kodesh’ ('holy convocation') (Yam Shel ...

The release of Cecil B. DeMille’s Samson and Delilah in 1949 heralded the return of the ancient world to the screen. It’s a movie filled with blood, desire, and a doomed romance, as the ...

What the words of ancient rabbis could and couldn’t teach ... and values like Tikkun Olam (healing the world) and Rodef Shalom (pursuing peace). Growing up, I went to Hebrew school on Thursday ...

Palaces, Fortresses and Wars from the Second Temple Period,” will be offered by Temple Beth Shalom of the West Valley in ...

I began to think of Jewish texts as an ancient technology ... On Friday nights, as we settled into our Shabbat meal with our ...

Two weeks later, at a Shabbat dinner in the forest following the Jan. 18 raid, attendees recited a Mourner’s Kaddish for Manuel Paez Teran and sang the traditional prayer “Oseh Shalom Bimromav ...

“The fossil pollen, spores, and wood presented in this study paint a much different picture of the ancient environment, providing direct evidence of the presence of cool, wet forests.