As a religion scholar, however, I believe one of the greatest loves in the Bible is a story of friendship: the intense ...

The quintessence of the story is that Abraham wanted to make it well-known to people that they should recognize G-d as the Creator and be grateful to Him. In order to get the audience for this message ...

Even though Sunday is the first day of the week, its inclusion in the weekend implies that it lives in Saturday’s shadow.

A community rallies around the family of a star athlete of the Schechter School of Long Island who fell in battle.

By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be ...

Christian cosmopolitanism calls for an expansion of our circle of concern, not to close it to anyone but Americans.

A mass grave in the Negev excavated by the Israel Antiquities Authority sheds light on funerary, divination, and commercial practices in the first millennium BCE ...

First, the mission of Jesus. He is the Messiah whose coming was anticipated and prophesized throughout the Hebrew Bible, also ...

A rare intact Hellenistic estate at Khirbet el-Eika in Eastern Galilee was likely abandoned by its inhabitant as Yonatan ...

The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love ...

The different target audiences led to the siddurim being printed in two versions: while the siddurim for olim from the Soviet Union contained the Israeli national prayers, those sent through various c ...

A note in the NAB describes them as “tall aboriginals” whom the Israelites likened ... The word Rephaim is a Hebrew word for “giants.” According to the Bible, they were a people who ...