Don't get stuck in the past. Let go of what lies behind and press into the great future God has planned for you.

Enslaved fugitives referred to the Ohio River as the River Jordan. It was a metaphor for freedom like the Israelites’ flight from slavery in Egypt through the parted waters of the Red Sea. Except the ...

In trying to understand the present it is helpful to examine it from the perspective of the past. In the Book of Judges, we find the familiar story of Samson ...

The provocation we receive from today’s reading is not an indictment but an invitation. We are forgetful simply because we are human. I believe this image of God’s grieved heart offers us a chance to ...

Temple Emanu El in Orange held its Consecration of six first-graders on Jan. 17 during erev Shabbat services, with Rabbi Matt ...

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, ...

“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 ...

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

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

I’m not Catholic, and you’re not priests, but I’ll share it with you anyway. Each year, when we come to last week’s Torah reading of Beshalach, I am guilty of passing judgment on the people of Moses’s ...

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