What better explains the sudden rise of republican government in the 16th and 17th centuries than the new and widespread availability of the Bible? And that’s not all.

In Hebrew, Arabic, English, German, or any other language, taboo words are curious things.

As millions of Jews fell under the Nazi yoke, Zionism’s foremost leader came to America with one goal. He didn’t achieve it.

The story of the biblical word b’liya’al.