For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the heart of Syria's capital Damascus, carefully passing their thumbs over the ...

In Minneapolis and St. Paul, the dense, mixed-use history of streetcar routes also played a key historical role in ...

An archaeological excavation in the heart of London unearthed remnants of the city's first Roman basilica, a nearly 2,000-year-old public building.

The militant group Hamas says it will free three Israeli hostages as planned this weekend. That's a reversal of its previous ...

(RNS) — Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Reform movement’s rabbinical training school, is moving its ...