The LORD showed me, and there were two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried way captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and ...

And so it goes, the cycle of exile and remembrance, uprooting and rerooting. With the Passover holiday, those free can celebrate their freedom, and those who are rooted, their rootedness. Yet at the ...

At a time when the post-war world order is being dismantled, perpetual allies are treated like enemies and hostile nations ...

Purim, therefore, is the prototype for Jewish survival during exile. The Divine Providence hidden in apparently random events ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The Jewish holiday cycle is, to a large extent, an exploration and commemoration of the experience of exile. The fall festival of Sukkot, for example, is celebrated in small ...

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Nancy E. Berg, Washington University in St. Louis (THE CONVERSATION) The ...

The relationship between the Jewish communities of Egypt and Israel created an underlying tension, not unlike the modern-day ...

Before the destruction of the First Temple, the Ark of the Covenant disappeared. Archaeologists are now scanning through ...