(RNS) The shared story of the binding of Isaac can be a story of hope for peace between Jews and Muslims in the Middle East and across the globe. (RNS) On Wednesday (Sept. 23) as Jews end their Yom ...

I retired from my secular career a year ago this month, and last fall — with all the other kids — I went back to school. In my case, I took two semesters of Biblical Hebrew, the language of the Old ...

James Goodman's But Where Is the Lamb? Imagining the Story of Abraham and Isaac uses a historian's eye to parse what has become over centuries perhaps the most debated 19 lines in the Bible. Here, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Sept. 15, Jewish people will usher in our holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the New Year. Contrasting with the secular Jan. 1 New Year ...

With “trust” in the subtitle, remember that Abraham totally trusts God after a recent covenant between them when God declared: “I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and ...

Hasidic Judaism is filled with Talmudic rules and practices that must be followed in order to live a healthy, kosher life. But there’s only one rule to keep about going to dinner at the Williamsburg ...

In introducing us to the patriarchal family of Isaac, son of Abraham, this week’s Torah portion of Toldot begins: "And these are the offspring of Isaac son of Abraham — Abraham begot Isaac." Since ...

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Writing of Kafka’s tales, Walter Benjamin pointed out that Kafka’s tangled meanings “do not modestly lie at the feet of the doctrine, as the Haggadah lies at the feet of Halakah… they raise a mighty ...

The story of the Akedah — the binding of Isaac — seems out of touch with the times. As racism and nativism have shockingly returned to the halls of power, in the United States and abroad, we need to ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I retired from my secular career a year ago this month, and last fall — with all the other kids — I went back to school. In my ...