Bust of Akhenaten The phrase “the New Empire,” as opposed to the Old and Middle Kingdoms, ...

Ancient Egyptian art depicting the defeat of the Hyksos. In about the year 1700 BCE, a ...

The Nile Delta, as seen from satellite. Image owned by NASA and taken by Jacques Descloitres ...

Gilad Shalit, IDF soldier held captive by Hamas since June 2006 The issue of the redemption ...

Jewish history works in strange and surprising ways. A perfect example is how the Diaspora spread from Babylonia to North ...

Plaque at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel. Photo by David Shay. Published under the ...

  The Rambam's house in Fez, Morocco Just as with Rashi, it is impossible for the ...

Two Sephardic Jews with an Ashkenazi in Jerusalem, 1895 The two main pillars on which all ...

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki One of the tendencies of modern historiography is to debunk past heroes. Revisionist ...