The question is: what happened in the land of Israel and Judah in the few centuries leading up to the time of Jesus? Herod the Great ... was the one who saved Paul from being imprisoned by the Jews ...

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Paul Gruninger paid a steep price for having the moral courage to disobey explicit instructions of the Swiss government. He was dismissed from the police force, convicted of breach of duty, official m ...

The tentative deal stirred hope for Israeli and American hostages, but deep suspicion about bartering with Hamas after the Oct. 7 terror attack.

The PBS documentary ‘Resistance’ uplifts the often unsung stories of how Jews fought back against the Nazis during the ...

Historical perspective should humble us. It should make us realize how little we understand the true nature of what is going on around us. But it should also make us realize that things truly worthwhi ...

We didn’t know where we were going — not really — but we knew where we had been, and we knew who we were. And we were there.

Getty Images So many Hungarian Jewish people were killed in such a short time that victims' bodies were dropped in pits near the camp and burned Tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews were sent to ...

Hirah is a bad friend. But not because of any ill intent. The issue is with Judah — whom he chose for a friend, who he chose to associate with. How, then, did Judah rise to become the progenitor of ...

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