Standing at the top of the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, with the sun shining over the ancient tombstones and glistening ...

Our heartfelt sympathies are with all those affected by this tragedy, and we pray for the swift recovery of those who have been injured ...

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

Priesthoods belong to settled cultures. They mark agricultural surplus, centralized administration and social hierarchy.

Isaiah would ask why we continue spending billions of dollars for weapons and tax cuts while cutting aid to the hungry, the ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...

The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, letters, film and law would be ...

In this selection of essays, op-eds and speeches, the first piece written six months after his son’s murder, Pearl gives us ...

Before Hannukah, many have dubbed the lull in holidays as "Jewish Book Month." With so many excellent Jewish novels to ...

The eight-day Jewish festival of Hanukkah commemorates ancient Jews’ victory over the powerful Seleucid empire, which ruled ...

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Prophets Noah and Abraham are being discussed in synagogues world-wide at this time of the year. Most Jews do not know about the insights of these two men as described in the Qur’an and later books of ...