The first time I went to a mostly African American church service, I was blown away by the music. One word came to mind – Motown. I felt the same beat, the same spirit of listening to groups and ...

What the Bible and history tell us about the claim that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants.

Comprehension begins within us, including our understanding and encounter with God – the universal web that connects us to ...

It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...

A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes, among other ...

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

The custom of including the Ten Commandments as part of the Shema was once widespread, but from a certain point in time it was systematically opposed by the Sages. Why did they object to it?

Rabbi Pinto further emphasized that a person develops precisely through moments of difficulty. When one faces challenges, they uncover inner strengths they were previously unaware of. If a person’s ...

Perhaps Yitro was not just looking for a God to believe in but a nation to be part of. In the splitting of the sea and the war of Amalek, Jethro found a special destiny embedded in Jewish peoplehood, ...

Chapter Two of the biblical Book of Exodus compresses into a mere five paragraphs the extraordinary story of Moses the Israelite boy born into a slave family who becomes the prince of Egypt and then a ...

President Trump, speaking to Fox News, reiterated his plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip and said its population would be ...