During The Three Weeks between 17 Tammuz and Tisha B’Av, as we recall the destruction of the Temples, we read three of the most searing passages in the prophetic literature, the first two from the ...

I remember learning in my yeshiva high school that the time of Jewish prophecy is dead. God’s intimate connection with his people had been severed because of their iniquity and never again can we ...

The tomb of the Jewish prophets Chagai, Zecharia, and Malachi on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem recently had its handrails upgraded with Christian crosses, under the approval of the monk ...

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It’s perhaps the most rabbinic word in the dictionary. If a person has aspirations to become a rabbi, aside from knowing halacha and how to develop a practical lesson from the parsha, he’s gotta be ...

A London-based rabbi, Shire is vice-principal of the Leo Baeck College and Center for Jewish Education. In this beautifully illustrated book, he selects 30 individuals who meet his criteria for being ...

It is not every biblical book that opens with God commanding his prophet to go marry a prostitute. But this is exactly what the prophet Hosea is told to do at the outset of his biblical career. “The ...

The Eno River Players announced the world premiere of Twelve Minor Prophets, a new play by Charlie Mayhew and Leo Egger, ...

Fascinating story by the incomparable Samuel G. Freedman about the short-lived and long-defunct New Jewish Times. The editor was a young Yossi Klein Halevi and first cover was drawn by The Art ...

If the prophets of ancient Israel such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Malachi and Amos were alive today, Benjamin Netanyahu would accuse them of anti-Semitism for daring to describe his government as a ...

The German Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing was a firebrand, author of profoundly unsettling books such as 1930’s “Jewish Self-Hatred” (Der jüdische Selbsthaß), a welcome new edition of which has ...