What the Bible and history tell us about the claim that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants.

It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...

Each week, Ari Sliffman, a Jewish legal mediator in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania will discuss the week’s Parshah “through the ...

The status quo in Gaza is not acceptable. But neither is expelling all Palestinians from Gaza. Luckily, those aren’t the only ...

Though he professes to be a Christian, Donald Trump seems to be unfamiliar with one of the Bible’s most memorable stories. If ...

“Then the L-rd said to Moses: ‘Inscribe this as a reminder, and read it aloud to Joshua: I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven… The L-rd will wage war against Amalek ...

One room will be renovated from a laundry room into a shared pantry. The Moab House, which costs $96,000 annually to operate ...

Yitro, this week’s Torah portion, has a lot to say about qualifications for public officials — namely, trustworthiness and ...

Was Jerusalem destroyed in 587 or 607 BCE? Often overlooked in this controversy is some evidence from Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian.

Armed and Divided Shabbat Thought Torah Portion Beshalach 2025 (revised from previous versions) In the Torah portion this ...

Jonah is aggrieved with God for showing grace to the people of Nineveh because he regards them as “outsiders” who are not Israelites. “That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish,” he ...

There will be a special choral prayer service at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church at 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, commemorating the Rev. Absalom Jones, who was born into slavery and became the first African ...