The Hebrew Bible's moral language and stories of God's promises redeemed have provided a shared point of reference for all of American history. But if we continue to lose that shared language, polariz ...

Julie Faith Parker is a Hebrew scholar who teaches biblical studies at General Theological Seminary in New York, and Eve ...

Amid the current chaos in the world, Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander has often been asked “where is God.” Instead, Rabbi Brander ...

Amazon Prime is releasing the first season of HOUSE OF DAVID, an epic TV series about the life of King David. Based on First ...

If you see your troubles as nothing more than isolated hassles and hurts, you’ll grow bitter and angry. Yet if you see your ...

It's also a feminine combination of Vladimir and Elena, which shows the balance of strength and grace. 65. Stanislava — ...

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill launches his four-week overview of the Bible's 66 books, starting from the ...

What’s the Bible for? We asked dozens of writers to respond to this question in seven words or less, as well as to expand on ...

The development of "Dayenu," that Haggadah ditty that recaps the many miracles the Israelites experienced throughout the Book ...

Omer Wenkert had nicknames for his Hamas captors. He called one of them Tznon, which means radish in Hebrew, after its bitter ...

So yes, time is real. A favorite benediction uses the words of 19th-century Swiss poet Henri Frederic Amiel: "Life is short, ...

Readers of the Bible are probably familiar with the god, Baal, who was one of the chief rivals of the Hebrew God. The term “baal” appears over 90 times in the Hebrew Bible. Perhaps the best ...