Whenever the news reports words or actions by some Jews that make Jews look bad in the minds of bystanders, one of our gravest sins has been done. Not by the reporters or the news audiences but by ...

Dr. Howard Tucker, Tzvi Hersh ben Chaim Herzl, passed away on Dec. 22, 2025, at the age of 103. Known around the world as the ...

A 2,000-year-old code that once looked like random scratches on parchment has finally given up its secret, turning a handful of obscure Dead Sea fragments into a new window on one of antiquity’s most ...

When Americans want to learn Yiddish, they usually sign up for classes at YIVO, the Yiddish Book Center or the Workers Circle. But when someone asks Rabbi Cody Bahir, the newly installed head of a ...

Richard Cherwitz (“Focus on Trump’s failures,” Our Readers’ Views, Sept. 4) writes that “the erosion of democracy and rise of authoritarianism, Trump’s failure to follow court orders, the rule of law ...

Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. Michael Marmur knows that some of the theological questions he raises in his new book may not be entirely palatable to ...

As an Avondale resident who drives on pothole-filled roads every day, I’m frustrated by Cincinnati Vice Mayor Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney’s push to fund her nonprofit allies over essential, basic ...

For more than a year, Alphabet Inc. shareholders have fretted over long-term risks posed by artificial intelligence to the company’s money-printing search business. This week the threat became much ...

New discoveries challenge old ideas about the earliest alphabets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. With so many ancient texts ...

Researchers may have deciphered the oldest known scrap of alphabetic writing yet discovered, and it may be a nearly 4,500-year-old gift tag. A clay cylinder found in a tomb holding six skeletons in ...

While discussions around gripes, solutions and concerns surrounding the homelessness crisis in Anchorage are common, I rarely hear mention of the serious risks to the health of people experiencing ...