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It is important to bear in mind that a lot of the techniques that science (specifically, archeology) uses to derive information about ancient cultures and religions can't be validly applied to Judaism …

In several places in Tanach, the Philistines are mentioned as having come from Caphtor (for example, Jer. 47:4 and Amos 9:7) - and in our verse, too, the Philistines and the Caphtorim are closely rela …

A primary source that bears on this is Megillah 3a/Nedarim 37b, which lists פיסוק טעמים and פסוקים (the divisions of cantillation and of verses) as being of Biblical origin (דאורייתא הוא), and sees th …

Before he even made any attempt at conquering Yerushalayim, Sancheriv first "went up against all of the fortified cities of Judah, and conquered them" (II Kings 18:13). This was eight years after the …

From the Gemara (Kiddushin 66a) it actually seems the other way around. Yehudah ben Gedidiah, one of the Sages at a banquet hosted by King Yannai, says: "!ינאי המלך! רב לך כתר מלכות; הנח כתר כהו …

Depends on what you mean by "live in." Rabbi Rice was indeed the first one to move to the US as a permanent resident, but earlier there was Rabbi Raphael Chaim Yitzchak Karigal of Hebron, who spent so …

On the back of a mezuzah there are written the letters כוזו במוכסז כוזו, which is a Caesar cipher (with a shift of 1) for the names of Hashem in the first verse of Shema.

Actually, Rashi doesn't say that Adam spoke lashon hakodesh. He says, מכאן שנברא העולם בלשון הקודש - from here we see that the world was created with LHK. Adam himself may have known other languages; …

The Gemara (Yevamos 16b-17a) cites a couple of opinions that bear on this: "If a non-Jew nowadays performs kiddushin with a Jewish woman, we have to be concerned that these kiddushin are valid [and …

I looked it up on JewishGen's Shtetl Search. The closest match seems to be Tuchola, western Poland (formerly part of Germany), about 100 miles NE of Poznan (Posen).

Some that I know of: There is a grave in Silwan (the old City of David), with an inscription in ancient Hebrew script identifying it as the tomb of "יהו אשר על הבית...". It's definitely from First T …

I always thought it was just because oxen were commonly used as draft animals. So your average Jew would then see this message in front of him throughout his workday, and (the Greeks evidently hoped) …

I don't know if you'd consider this a "natural" explanation, but... Kabbalistic sources speak of ten basic modes through which G-d relates to us, called sefiros. These are described in terms of three …

This article (PDF) says: Credit for being the first "legitimate" Hasidic rebbe to settle in the United States appears to go to the Ukrainian Twersky family. R. David Mordecai Twersky, a descen …

Lehavdil (about churches), a note at the bottom of this page claims: In the United States the practice seems to have developed during the Taft administration when the world was heading toward WWI. …