The Haggadah says that we celebrate Passover as if we, today, were there. And yet after biblical times, early in the Talmudic era, the rabbis imagined a human hero at the Red Sea: Nachshon ben ...

Marc Breault found what he once thought was salvation in a grocery store off the campus of Loma Linda University in Southern California.

Signs of renewal are underway at the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Kentucky since floodwaters that inundated the whiskey-making ...

Israel's military is expanding buffer zones inside the Gaza Strip and taking over more areas of the territory, shrinking land Palestinians can access by more than half.

Military alliances are interstate political agreements signed to achieve common defense. They have existed since Antiquity ...

Israel says it has completed construction of a new security corridor that cuts off the southern city of Rafah from the rest ...

When Lebanon's civil war erupted 50 years ago this month, its national museum became a flashpoint of its capital's deadly ...

Federal Liberal Leader Mark Carney and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh appeared in Saskatoon on Wednesday. The province has elected ...

Some chapters in history read like full-blown thrillers. Moments where world leaders stared down disaster and a single ...

Meanwhile, the Jews reached a large sea. It was too big to swim across and they did not know what to do. So, they prayed to ...

The word Israel in Hebrew is יִשְׂרָאֵל.  It is formed from its root which has a meaning which most scholars think conveys ...