Thus, the Torah tells the Jewish umma, and the Qur’an tells the Muslim umma, the importance of picking yourself up and going (Hajj in Arabic, Hag in Hebrew) with masses of other members of your umma, ...

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

The prophets were not fortune-tellers. They were truth-tellers. They spoke into moments when the fabric of society had frayed—politically, ethically, spiritually—and they insisted that catastrophe was ...

On the first night of Hanukkah, I learned that Eli Schlanger, a rabbi I had known for decades, was gunned down at a Hanukkah ...

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.

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 ...