(RNS) — Ashura, the 10th day of the first month in the Islamic calendar, falls this year on Saturday (July 5). A sacred day ...

Phobias are intense, and mostly irrational fears of specific objects, situations, or creatures. While many of us are familiar with common fears like spiders or heights, some phobias are ...

On one hand, the argument of Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched and unsparingly honest “Fear No Pharaoh” — that the 150,000 Jews in America at the time of the Civil War had a range of ...

‘Fear No Pharaoh’ Review: A Question of Faith and Freedom In pre-Civil War America, a small number of Jewish slaveowners defended the practice. Other prominent Jews joined with abolitionists.

Archaeologists found a new pharaoh's tomb at Anubis Mountain in Egypt. The tomb is from the mysterious Abydos Dynasty of warrior kings in a chaotic historical era. The pharaoh's identity is a ...

The Dolphins agreed to terms with free agent tight end Pharaoh Brown, adding another valuable blocking option to the offense. Brown has played most of his career as an attached Y tight end – aligning ...

Jerusalem Post History 'Fear No Pharaoh': US Jews and slavery – from implicated to appalled - review In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans ...

Colloquially, people sometimes say they have a phobia of something they're fearful or wary of — but what really counts as a specific phobia, as it's understood in psychology?

Plane accidents such as the collision above Reagan National Airport can trigger aerophobia, the fear of flying. Here’s how to manage the phobia.

Pharaoh’s empire couldn’t stand in the presence of divine justice, and neither can Hamas. Their reign isn’t just a blight on us Jews, but an offense to the moral fabric of the universe.

A British mother says her extreme phobia of vomit has left her suicidal — and unable to leave the house. Alex Sim-Wise, 43, says the crippling fear, known as emetophobia, began when she was ...

The London-based phobia specialist Christopher Paul Jones, author of Face Your Fears: 7 Steps to Conquering Phobias and Anxiety, says that a food phobia, also known as “cibophobia”, is an ...