Like Elisha, we must combine faith in miracles with direct, personal action. Our wounded defenders need not only our prayers; ...

Chefs, writers, editors and a bookseller gathered to debate — and decide — which titles have most changed the way we cook and ...

In his book Lessons in Leadership, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks – a briliant rabbinic leader – comments that “Abraham is without a ...

Like the prophet Abraham, American Jews face 10 tests ahead of us post-election, including leading by example and raising our ...

In this version, he is the "ruling prince of the Second Heaven," responsible for teaching the wisdom of the Torah, which is the first five books of the Jewish holy scripture. Different teachings ...

A marble tablet inscribed with nine of the Ten Commandments, said to be the oldest intact version of its kind in stone, is ...

Founded in 2015, the Catholic University in Erbil, located in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, offers education, ...

I just got home from celebrating Simchat Torah, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the end ... Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy came up with the concept in 1929 in his book Chains. The theory kept ...

The oldest stone tablet depicting the Ten Commandments will be auctioned again, more than a hundred years after it was first ...

More than 1,000 synagogues were burned, their pews destroyed; sacred Torah scrolls and holy books were set aflame. More than ...

Readers of the Torah should not be bothered by Maimonides reading the story ... and Chapter 2 tells how it was done. In Plato’s book Symposium, the comic playwright Aristophanes states that initially, ...

Rabbi Shai Held, acclaimed theologian and author of “Judaism Is About Love,” is speaking throughout the Bay Area this week.