The war was sparked by a complex mix of territorial disputes, mostly over the contested Shatt al-Arab waterway, a vital oil ...

There are no fewer than seven theatres of war in the world today which have invited more than our passing attention. I am ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Israel's Nir Oz kibbutz near the Gaza Strip on Thursday for the first time since ...

Long overshadowed by its Egyptian neighbors, the Kingdom of Kush was a powerful and advanced African civilization that ruled ...

French pop historian Vincent Lemire's illustrated tome makes some loaded choices in depicting the Jewish parts of history.

AT PENPOINTThe ceasefire announced by President Donald Trump was apparently a way of getting out of what had so far been an ...

In the holy writings of the ancient Jews, King Cyrus of Persia has the distinction of being the first and only foreign Messiah.

There are also other possibilities. One ancient legend suggests that the ark was hidden somewhere in or near the temple ...

THE recent outbreak of war between Israel and Iran is not just another geopolitical conflict — it is a painful eruption of an ancient struggle that has reverberated through the centuries. While ...

David and Solomon: Fictional Figures of a Reconstructed Golden Age Yigal Bin-Nun Following the Assyrian conquest of the Kingdom of Israel, the need arose—particularly during the reign of ...

The Sassoons were Iraqi Jews, a community that traces its origins in Mesopotamia to the Babylonian conquest of the Kingdom of Judah 2,600 years ago.

The administrative activity of Judah included the concentration and management of the agricultural produce farmers used to pay taxes to the kingdom. The produce was transported and delivered in ...