Jerusalem and its environs have many historic trees, including the grove of gnarled olives in the Garden of Gethsemane – under which...

EILAT – With the Ramon Airport beginning service on October 28, officials hope that the state-of-the-art facility will boost tourism to...

First published on the Chicago Jewish Star Raphael Golb, the disgraced Manhattan lawyer and son of Chicago’s Oriental Institute Dead Sea...

Israel Turkienicz, a hero of Israel’s War of Independence and survivor of the Holocaust, died of respiratory failure in Florida January...

AMMAN, Jordan – While the media has depicted the Middle East as roiling in violence since last month’s decision by American President...

JERUSALEM – In Europe, the Giro d'Italia bicycle race ranks in status with baseball’s World Series. Since the beloved Italian sports...

TORONTO - Visitors to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) here are being treated to an obscene display among the collections of dinosaur...

JERUSALEM – Having recently acquired Toronto’s troubled 65-storey Trump International Hotel and Tower now being rebranded as The St....

JERUSALEM – The UN in Geneva established a unit in February to prosecute war criminals who have committed atrocities during Syria’s...

“And the life of Sarah was 100 years and 20 years and seven years; these were the years of the life of Sarah. And Sarah died in Kiryat...

Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band were rocking Lisbon the day I arrived last month. The three-hour concert – and three-day Rock in...

Évora, Portugal – Imagine a quiet corner of Europe studded with white-washed hilltop villages each crowned with a castle, gourmet...

Lovers of Jewish heritage have another reason to visit the Eternal City this spring. Thanks to an initiative by Italian culture minister...

And Joseph also went up from Galilee... unto ... Bethlehem... with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. - Luke 2: 4-5 Hidden...

The story of how in 1654 23 Jews escaping religious persecution came to New Amsterdam – today New York City in the United States – is...

Beersheva’s new Negev Museum of Islamic and Near Eastern Cultures opened its second exhibition last Monday (Dec. 14, 2015). Called “From...

As the centenary of World War I grinds its way across the calendar, a relentless anniversary of bloodbaths are being memorialized –...

If the Nobel Prize offered a category for ecumenicalism in the plastic arts, Akram Anastas would likely be a candidate. The...

Tourists and pilgrims despairing about finding a genuine souvenir of their visit to the Holy Land that wasn’t mass-manufactured in China,...

Many Israeli tour guides tout that they take their clients to off the beaten path sites. But next to none visit Nazareth’s Deutscher...