Why do we celebrate Lag b'Omer, the day when the plague ended that killed nearly each and every one of Rabbi Akiva's 24,000 students?

Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon addressed the Security Council on the Jewish People's rights to the Land of Israel, reading from the bible to make his case.

What is the connection between Jews as a people, Judaism as a religion, and Israel as a state?

Much as we conceive of Zionism as a modern Jewish nationalist movement, it likely wouldn't have succeeded without the weight of Jewish tradition behind it.

The matzoh that Jews eat on Passover carries a profound message. It's the taste of freedom!

Here's some basic - and not so basic - information about Purim. Learn about the history and the meaning behind this joyous, yet very significant, holiday.

A special EuroBarometer report provides some shocking statistics on Europeans' views of Jew-hatred.

There were only 200 Jews in Albania. Why were the Nazis disturbed by the existence of such a tiny Jewish community?

Maimonides' impact on religion and philosophy has been felt for close to a millennium and his most famous works are now on display in the Holy Land!

Hebron is one of the oldest, continuously inhabited cities in the world, yet it dominates the news cycle even today.

Can the fertility of the land have a direct relationship with the people living on it? Science can't explain it!

A 2,000-year-old ring was uncovered in archaeological excavations in the City of David National Park in Jerusalem, dating back to the Second Temple period.

Hint - it's NOT the Western Wall!

The Tenth of Tevet is a fast day calling for introspection and self-improvement so that we could become worthy of God's rebuilding of the Holy Temple.

On Chanukah there is a power in the air that we breathe, which has the ability to help us emerge victorious in the personal battles we face on a daily basis.

What really drives anti-Semitism, the world's oldest hatred, which dates back to the beginning of Judaism itself?

'If you are a Jew, this is your place on earth, for the time you have to live, be it long or short. It is a time for return,' Naomi Ragen writes. 

Welcome home! Jews have finally come back to their homeland.  

With a population of six million, Israel now has the largest concentration of Jews in the world, Minister Sofa Landver announced.

A senior Hamas official went on an anti-Semitic rant and blamed the Jews for centuries of persecution, which he alleged was the result of their own corruption.

As we pray at the Western Wall and gaze up at the Temple Mount, we cannot help but wonder why there is no Holy Temple today. Does it have anything to do with the slanderous report of the spies in the times of Moses?

From biblical times to the modern era, Jerusalem has remained the emotional and spiritual epicenter of the Jewish people.

In 1969, Golda Meir was appointed Prime Minister of Israel, making her the fourth leader of the modern Jewish state.

Junior archaeologists uncover exciting find from Talmudic times of oil lamps made of clay during hands-on scientific project.

UNESCO denies the Jewish biblical connection to Jerusalem. The City of David responds to this anti-Israel bias with pure facts.