We read in our Parasha of the command: (25-17-18)’Harass the Midianites and smite them; for they harassed you through their conspiracy that they conspired against you in the matter of Peor, and in the ...
AMMAN — An inscription known as Mesha Stele or Mesha Inscription indicates that in the ancient town of Altaruz, located some 30 kilometres southwest of Madaba, Chemosh, the god of the Moabites, was ...
The Edomites and Moabites, meanwhile, had lived in their ancestral lands east of the Jordan River continually, but were more subject to forced conversion to Islam because of their proximity to Arabia ...
What defines Judaism and the Jewish people? Ethnicity/Race? Or Religious Culture and Practice? The Book of Ruth, that we read in a couple of days on Shavuot, provides a complex answer. It’s a ...