In May 2023, my son, Lauren, and four of his male friends visited New York, right after the end of their freshman year in college. My son had just turned 18. His friends were between 18 and 19. It was ...

Most ancient peoples who faced comparable pressures disappeared. Their names survive, if at all, as archaeological layers or ...

"As a rabbi in Sydney, I implore you not to betray the Jewish people and not God Himself," wrote Rabbi Schlanger following ...

It's been nearly three weeks since 18-year-old Onke Komsana from the rural village of Sithebe in Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape left home for initiation school - the rite of passage for Xhosa boys ...

Headlines of initiates dying or losing their penises due to botched circumcisions are common as families face the fears of initiation school.

The O.C.' may have popularized the term, but Hollywood families have been celebrating both the Nativity and Festival of ...

The shape of the menorah – and of the hanukkiah – teaches us that while we all may be diverse branches, we derive from a ...

Indeed, any one of their military triumphs against the Syrians could have been considered the “miracle of Chanukah,” but it was the retaking of Jerusalem and the rededication of the Temple that ended ...

Tiriki elders conducted mourning rites at Cyrus Jirongo's home in Gigiri and called for vengeance if he was killed, but if he ...

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This discovery, involving mummified children from over 1,400 years ago A recent study published in the Proceedings of the ...