In 1823, Vermont Congregationalist minister Ethan Smith published “View of the Jews,” which featured the Pittsfield tefillin ...

On Jan.22, 1984, Ronald Reagan issued a presidential proclamation declaring the third Sunday in January as National Sanctity ...

In synagogues around the world where the Five Books of Moses are read in the traditional triennial cycle on the Sabbath, the 21 verses that tell the story of Moses’ birth through his marriage — the ...

Written over 25 years, Martha Moore Ballard’s diary gives us a unique perspective into the midwifery profession, and the lives of women in the newly independent United States of America. Untold is a ...

In 1767, London was no stranger to violence, yet this case stunned the city. A fourteen-year-old girl died after prolonged abuse inside a respectable household. The person responsible held authority, ...

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to win a later war, united. In “The “Egyptian” Midwives: Who were the midwives who risked their lives to save male Hebrew babies—Israelites or Egyptians? A text discovered at the Cairo Genizah sheds ...