In the Bible's Old Testament, the Ark of the Covenant is linked to several miracles, such as protecting the Israelites from poisonous animals during their Exodus out of Egypt, stopping the flow of the ...

Music has power. Sometimes music is the power behind big movements. OK, saying it’s the power behind movements might be too exaggerated, but it definitely accompanies and empowers movements and soci ...

Creating a roundup of the 25 best-selling books of all time is harder than it sounds. Books—especially those published hundreds of years ago—were published in different editions and translated ...

Traditional oil lamps glow in the Beth El synagogue at Panvel Besides importantly encouraging English translations of Hebrew prayers, the JRU embraces the practice of Bat Mitzvah, the female ...

Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar. Another year of reading has come and gone, leaving mental trails of ...

The episode will explore archaeological artifacts such as an inscription from Izbet Sarteh in Israel, which may be one of the earliest inscriptions of the Hebrew language. ReligionForBreakfast ...

Our current decade has brought in some great recent reads — see our picks here Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms.

As the holiday of Chanukah approached this year, I couldn’t help but think of the parallels of the war that the Maccabees fought ... and even our Torah as a book of great wisdom.