November 10, 2014
8:13 pm

Peter Gabriel performing at the 2011 Skoll Awards. (photo credit: CC BY-Araujojoan96, Wikipedia)

Peter Gabriel pro-Gaza, not anti-Israel

Genesis front man says he is not anti-Semitic, but is against oppression and occupation

By Times of Israel staff

March 19, 2014
3:11 am

Artist's rendition of the Big Bang (Photo credit: NASA)

New Big Bang evidence supports Biblical creation, says Orthodox physicist

Counters nonreligious professor: The Genesis account of the formation of the heavens and the earth has nothing to do with science

By David Shamah

March 18, 2014
1:34 am

Scientists, from left, Clem Pryke, Jamie Bock, Chao-Lin Kuo and John Kovac smile during a news conference at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., Monday, March 17, 2014, regarding their new findings on the early expansion of the universe. Scientists say that the universe was born almost 14 billion years ago, exploding into existence in an event called the Big Bang. Now these researchers say they’ve spotted evidence that a split-second later, the expansion of the cosmos got a powerful-jump start. Experts called the discovery a major advance if confirmed. (photo credit: AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Scientists hail a first glimpse of ‘the beginning of time’

Split-second after Big Bang, 14 billion years ago, new evidence points to an astonishing rapid growth spurt at the start of the universe

By Malcolm Ritter

May 16, 2013
7:06 pm

Attendees at the Venice Biennale international art festival in 2007 (photo credit: CC BY 3.0, by Renatomarto, Wikimedia Commons)

Vatican to present Torah-themed art exhibit

‘Creation, Un-Creation, Re-Creation,’ based on Genesis 1-11, will be displayed at Venice Biennale international art festival

December 11, 2012
2:47 am

Johan Huibers poses with a stuffed tiger in front of the full scale replica of Noah’s Ark in Dordrecht, Netherlands, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. (Peter Dejong/AP)

Noah’s Ark opens in Netherlands

Dutchman launches life-sized replica of biblical vessel

By Toby Sterling

November 30, 2012
2:19 pm

Parsha Pick: VaYishlach

Jacob and Esau face off

By Shawn Ruby

November 28, 2012
1:32 pm

Bible scholar Tzemah Yoreh questions the common telling of the binding of Isaac -- the version that inspired Caravaggio -- in which an angel stops Abraham moments before he sacrifices his son. (Photo credit: From http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/caravaggio/isaac.jpgg/via Wikipedia)

When Abraham murdered Isaac

A young New York scholar believes he has unearthed the earliest version of the Bible, which features infanticide, a senseless massacre and only seven commandments 

By Haviv Rettig Gur

February 3, 2012
3:20 pm

VC Exec: Entrepreneurs in Israel and Silicon Valley ‘two of a kind’

Bloomberg: Top Israeli venture capitalist Eddy Shalev says that Israeli entrepreneurs are a lot like Silicon Valley entrepreneurs – hence their mutual and, in many cases, joint successes