The text explores the little-known history of the Jewish community in Suriname, a former colony in South America where Jewish plantation owners once enjoyed self-rule for about a century, crafting a unique Jewish state long before Israel's independence in 1948.

Two Israeli reserve soldiers discovered a well-preserved Byzantine-era oil lamp while at a military staging area near the Gaza border.

A Jewish author, Rachel Beanland, had a talk at a JCC in Florida canceled because her novel mentions slavery, which goes against new state laws limiting discussions on race in schools.

Four 1,900-year-old Roman swords have been found in a cave near the Dead Sea.

Archaeologically valuable ceramic oil lamps from ancient Israel, initially brought to the U.S. for a White House Hanukkah Party in 2019, were reported missing, only to turn up at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.

Jerusalem's deputy mayor, Dov Kalmanovich, attributed the recent falling of a 220-pound boulder from the Western Wall near an egalitarian prayer site to what he calls "quarrel-mongers" like Reform leaders and Women of the Wall, suggesting the incident is a divine warning against them.