Sensible New Yorkers already were having anxiety attacks about their next mayor before a series of terrifying events in ...

The newly excavated 4,500-year-old valley temple from ancient Egypt holds a "public calendar" and a roof for astronomical ...

Plans for a major visitor center at the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem promise education and security, but opponents say ...

Sephardi Jews flourished for centuries in Muslim Spain and Portugal, creating a luminous culture of poetry, science, and ...

If there is a villain in the Nativity story it is surely Herod, the monarch who supposedly slaughtered thousands of infants ...

A pilgrim who visited the Second Temple in Jerusalem may have carved their memories into a limestone block for another ...

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.

A sneak peek at some of the fabulous family activities happening in Jerusalem this Hanukkah. Hanukkah is a magical time in ...

Hanukkah, or Chanukah, pronounced Kha-nu-kah, began last evening, December 14, and ends on December 22. It is the Jewish ...

Israel is planning to expel residents of the ancient West Bank town of Sebastia to create a national park for settlers.

Archaeologists uncovered the longest continuous section of the Hasmonean Kingdom wall foundation in Jerusalem, built decades ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...