A tractate concerning Jewish monetary law from the Babylonian Talmud, scribed in 1721 by a 12-year-old Amschel Moses ...

Explore the story of Chabad of Doylestown and Rabbi Mendel Prus's journey of success and growth in the community.

Tina Witt said she’s looking forward to serving as director of the Perry Senior Center. Witt was formally introduced as the organization’s new leader during an ice-cream social held at the center on ...

Einat Bloch, a teenage activist at the time of the Gaza pullout in 2005, says that leaving Gaza saved her community from an ...

The tradition of displaying the deceased ahead of a funeral is hardly unique, but certain Ghanaian communities elevate the ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

What it tells us about the past: In 1860, a farmer was tilling a field in central Slovakia when he unearthed a spectacular paneled gold Byzantine crown. For more than a century, experts have argued ...

In ancient Egyptian funerary rituals, canopic jars were used to hold human organs that were removed during the mummification ...

To understand Islam, we need to understand its major divisions, Sunni and Shiite. One way to start is to grasp the dueling significances of a major Islamic holiday, Ashura, coming up next Saturday ...

Ceramic artist Susan Garson paints a bird menorah. Susan Garson is featured in the Holiday episode of Craft in America. Aired: 12/20/13 Rating: NR Buy Now: Buy DVDs Share ...

The life of this influential radical thinker is the subject of the new documentary “ Sabbath Queen ,” which was filmed over ...

A London rabbi on how spreading a message of Jewish joy and pride means Chabad has grown from an insular Chasidic sect to the influential Jewish force it is today ...