Dracunculiasis (commonly known as guinea-worm disease), is a parasitic infection caused by drinking stagnant water contaminated with parasite-infected water fleas of the cyclops genus, according to ...

“Hashem sent the fiery serpents against the people and they bit the people. A large multitude of Israel died” (Bamidbar 21:6). Second, the pasuk tells us (21:7) that the people asked Moshe to pray to ...

The Rev. Eugene Curry, senior pastor, Park Hill Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo.: Translating animal names in ancient documents is notoriously tricky because the specific identity of the things ...

Translating animal names in ancient documents is notoriously tricky because the specific identity of the things mentioned can’t always be deduced from context alone. The “cockatrice” of the Old ...

We read in our Parasha, that after ‘the people spoke against G-d and Moshe..G-d sent the fiery serpents against the people and they bit the people’ many of whom died; and the people pleaded with Moshe ...

Italian researchers examining a medieval painting may have found the earliest visual depiction of dracunculiasis, a horrifying parasitic infection in which a worm up to 3 feet long creeps out of the ...

Italian researchers examining a medieval painting may have found the earliest visual depiction of dracunculiasis, a horrifying parasitic infection in which a worm up to 3 feet long creeps out of the ...