Fire beacons for the new moon.

Fake writing and filling an archaeological “black hole.”

Ishaan Tharoor’s Cyrus problem.

The first movement against the Jewish right to Jerusalem.

Built for launching a campaign against Egypt.

A brief history of the etrog.

Remembering Yaakov Elman.

But can it defeat the ayatollahs’ well-oiled machinery of oppression?

Pillar figurines and rosette stamps confirm the biblical account.

Nehemiah son of Hachaliah.

Striking similarities.

Mar Zutra’s monarchy.

Could she be Xerxes’ wife, Queen Amestris?

Where did many of the tales in the Babylonian Talmud come from?