The Academy of the Hebrew Language “determines the need for new Hebrew words through both professional demand and public inquiry,” its academic secretary told JNS.The post To refer to ‘deep ...

A new exhibition at Yad Vashem highlights the extraordinary efforts made, often at risk of death, to preserve and mark the Jewish holidays during the darkest of times ...

Taking place simultaneously in Berlin, London, Stockholm, New York, Boston, and Hollywood, Florida, the festival spotlights ...

Our modern calendar is the Gregorian calendar, named for Pope Gregory XIII, who reformed it in 1582 to correct some errors in ...

Charlie Kirk embraced Shabbat as a life-changing pause. Judaism knows it as the force that sustained a people and changed the world.Before his assassination, Charlie Kirk's final project was to ...

Zev Stub is the Times of Israel's Diaspora Affairs correspondent. There are no Jews known to be living in Somaliland, which declared its independence from Somalia in 1991. However, the territory can ...

Let’s face it — we’ve had a rough start to 2026. Many of us have been watching in dismay as world events unfold and it seems like there is no ...

How do you translate ancient Palmyrene script from a Roman tombstone? How many paired tendons are supported by a specific ...

Israel is one of the smallest countries on earth. Roughly the size of New Jersey. Fewer than ten million citizens. No oil ...

There are no Jews known to be living in Somaliland, which declared its independence from Somalia in 1991. However, the territory can claim some interesting footnotes in Jewish history — beyond ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a ...