DNA is a mosaic of genetic fragments passed down through generations, but its clarity diminishes over time. While modern testing can trace ancestry through shared markers, the depth of this insight ...

Bunny origin story is more mysterious than you might imagine, and religion seems to have nothing to do with it ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...

Some Native Hawaiians tried to lighten their skin with lye. Many people believed Polynesian voyagers had simply lucked into finding the islands by drifting on logs. But a canoe launched half a ...

This is the profound and remarkable story of the 550,000 Jewish Americans who served their country in World War II. These brave men and women fought for their nation and for Jewish people worldwide.

Face it: After years of scraping the hair off your mug with laser-sharpened Gillette Mach 3s, your skin is left with all the sensitivity of wallet leather. Daddy may have taught you how to shave ...

James Deutsch is senior content coordinator for the Smithsonian’s America at 250 Book Project, and a former folklore curator at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, where ...

Rogan hosts one of the most popular podcasts in the country. O Cinema initially agreed to cancel the screening of the film about Palestinian displacement in the West Bank but reversed course.

Parents need to know that The Rule of Jenny Pen is a brutal but skillful psychological horror movie in which a judge (Geoffrey Rush) ends up in a care facility after having a stroke and is then ...