The Jewish population of Judea and Galilee was divided into three religious groups, two major and one minor. The largest group by numbers were the Pharisees but they were not a majority.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth floated the possibility of a third Jewish temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, ...

Jews find meaning in our religion in many ways. Personally, my inspiration doesn’t come from fearing antisemitism or visiting ...

What the Bible and history tell us about the claim that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants.

The custom of including the Ten Commandments as part of the Shema was once widespread, but from a certain point in time it was systematically opposed by the Sages. Why did they object to it?

It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...

Most salient to Jews is the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE ... there are other suggestions of Jewish gladiators. A first-century book describes “a man of the Jewish race ...

“I’m the closest that there is to the creative mind of László,” said Becker, who crafted the ingenious mid-century furniture, ...

This wall, located in the heart of the Old City, is a remnant of King Herod's renovation of the Second Temple and dates back to the first century B.C. Millions of pilgrims (Jewish and non-Jewish ...

In Jesus’ day, while the Temple still ... many 19th-century artists sought to be artistically authentic, “background-faithful” to what Judea and Galilee in the first-century might have ...

A rare intact Hellenistic estate at Khirbet el-Eika in Eastern Galilee was likely abandoned by its inhabitant as Yonatan ...