When Joseph P. Babcock  exported Mahjong to the US in 1917, he likely did not foresee the hit it would quickly become.  With a fresh...

Everything that happens is for the good – we just have to understand that we may not see it until we look back from a later vantage point.

‘Of all phenomena, the ability of certain individuals to walk barefoot through fire without being burned is perhaps the most spectacular'

Nearly 1,000 years after the flood, the location of Noach’s Ark was still common knowledge—a proof to the world that the great flood did ind

'The stars above you shine with such an incredible brilliance that you can see them reflected in that cold blue ice beneath your feet.'

‘His kidneys are failing;  he has just a few hours left to live.’  In the early days of the Covid epidemic, Rabbi Chaim Ginzberg had...

And then came the Holy One, Blessed is He, and he slaughtered the Angel of Death, who killed the butcher who slaughtered the ox, that...

‘Your majesty,’ he murmured, eyes gleaming as he knelt before the Kingly throne.  ‘Your majesty, there is a nation... one small nation,...

Rooted firmly in the ground, with arms in the sky, they reflect the dichotomy of our existence; an earthly soul tied to a physical body; mo

Of all the festivals, Chanuka most certainly epitomizes the, ‘They tried to kill us, they failed, let’s eat’ script. Yet we very quickly...

‘I’m sorry we broke into the nursery’ read the sign, ‘But we needed to water the plants. With love, the troops.’ Returning after the...

Sometimes, there’s nothing to say. Now is one of those times. Our voices are broken, our hearts shattered over the cruel fate of the...

‘Inception’ is an ingenious science fiction film that is based on the premise that we can access the subconscious via dreams. For the...

‘Who shall live and who shall die, who shall have rest and who wander, who shall be at peace and who pursued, who shall be serene and who...

As Napoleon Bonaparte walked through the streets of Paris, the sounds of crying and mourning emanated from within a synagogue. It was...

The time read 09:00:46 on September 23rd, 1999, and after almost 10 months of blazing through space, the Mars Climate Orbiter finally...

From the age of 4 weeks old, identical twins Jim Lewis and Jim Springer were raised apart. Yet fascinatingly, when they were finally...

There’s the joke of the agricultural inspector who goes out to a farm to do inspections. He calls out in the yard upon his arrival, but...

Long ago, a nation of princes was enslaved. Employed in backbreaking labor and subjugated with harsh abuse, beatings, and even deaths,...

It was 1997 when Billie Bob Harrell Jr.’s struggles were finally over. After winning $30 million in the lottery, he quit his job at Home...