History

Still reeling from the horrors of violent fascism and extreme nationalism, humanity has grown enamored of a universal self-conception that denies meaningful differences of race, religion, or culture.

The massacres, the pogroms and the terror, are focused on Israel’s eradication: to be achieved by crushing Jews and the Jewish spirit.

In a world where trust has become a scarce resource, amateur radio operators offer something different: human communication that connects people around the world who share the same passion.

Ancient Greek culture, based on Aristotle’s philosophy, believed only in what is 'before the eyes' – what can be seen, touched, measured, and proven.

The hand-held lasers concentrate flickering beams of light onto the stone, with the heat they generate lifting away black deposits of pollution to reveal the white Carrara marble beneath.

Hanukkah is not sentimental spirituality: It is political theology. It proclaims that Jewish existence is not justified by how pleasing it is to others, nor how dissolves into general humanity.

The Civil Administration said the artifacts add to a growing corpus of Second Temple–era material recovered in recent years across the West Bank.

A historian says new DNA analysis confirms longtime suspect Aaron Kosminski - but experts warn the evidence remains far from definitive.

The museum, Libya's largest, was closed in 2011 during a NATO-backed uprising against longtime ruler Gaddafi, who appeared on the castle's ramparts to deliver a fiery speech.

HISTORICAL AFFAIRS: Private Sam Greyman's journey took him from Russia to Leeds to Jerusalem.