The Hebrew month of Av is a month of strong contrasts. It begins in mourning and moves toward celebration. Its first days ...

After forty years of wandering toward the Promised Land, after generations of longing for Zion, the tribes of Reuben and Gad ...

The legend of the lost tribes grew not because the tribes vanished, but because the biblical record leaves their fate open-ended. Judah’s scribes shaped Israel’s story after the northern kingdom fell, ...

Medieval Christians drawing boundaries around ancient Israelite tribes on Holy Land maps had no idea they were influencing how later mapmakers would depict political power. Those red ink lines, meant ...

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Daber: in Hebrew, to speak. Daberu: Japanese for chatting. Goi: a non-Hebrew or foreigner. Gai'Jeen: prefix for a foreigner, a non-Japanese. Kor: cold in Hebrew. Koru ...

DIMONA, Israel — For two years, Toveet Israel and dozens of other residents of the Village of Peace have lived in fear. Dimona, a city on the edge of the nation of Israel’s Negev Desert, has been her ...

Israel’s war with Hamas is part of a more extensive information war with a global, networked tribe. Israel is losing that larger struggle. You can gauge the status of this long war in the results of a ...

Despite their distinct strengths, Moshe and Aaron worked together in unity. The brothers served Hashem with their unique wisdom and soul powers: Moshe personified emes, emphasizing truth even though ...