Lag B'Omer occurred on the 33rd day of counting the Omer, and many celebrated this occasion with bonfires and barbecue items ...

Significantly, the country followed strictly orthodox Wahhabi Sunni Islam. Now, Saudi Arabia has mandated a much more modern style of Islam. It no longer has school textbooks full of blood-curdling ...

By Barrett Holman Leak SAN DIEGO — I remember the aroma of warm butter and sweet cheese that hung thick in the air in our ...

David Deutsch (May 18, 1953) is a British physicist at the University of Oxford, often described as the "father of quantum ...

"...In Pakistan, a person can be killed not just for converting, but even for behaving outside religious norms—not by the ...

Shiri Maimon (May 17, 1981) is an Israeli singer, television personality and actress, who rose to fame as the runner-up in ...

Daniel Vnukowski from Toronto, Canada, amazed the audience with what looked like magic as his hands hit the keys on the grand ...

The Astor Judaica Library had some 60 people attending the May 4 Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices program featuring three published ...

I knew that my mother had been around 14 when the war began and that she had spent most of it in evacuation in Yangiyul, not far from Tashkent. [Yakov Nayerman] ...

The main character in this mystery novel is Cassandra Crawford, a Black FBI agent whose young daughter Keri must submit three times per week to dialysis, her kidney disease traceable to a bite by a ...

Can Bonomo (May 16, 1987) is a Turkish singer who represented Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan. [Wikipedia] ...