Moses is the most famous, influential, and revered figure in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, surpassing King David by the ...

Moshe broke the Tablets of the Law in response to the construction of the golden calf (Exodus 32:19; Ta’anit 28b). In ...

Low public trust levels, voter apathy, and technology queries among keys issues the new offices needs to tackle.

Wilberg has been the choir’s music director since 2008, and was the associate director for the previous nine years, which puts his own involvement with “Music & the Spoken Word” at over 1,600 episodes ...

Anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass first delivered this speech on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York. It was part of ...

Balaam wants so badly to hurt the Israelites that he tries three times and fails spectacularly each and every time.

In Parshat Balak, Bilaam never saw the people he was meant to curse. He viewed them from a distance; abstractly, impersonally. His words came not from relationship, but rather from obligation, from po ...

The story of Balaam and his talking donkey is a major problem for serious theologians and scholars of the Bible. If you are ...

Balak was evil – he did not want to elevate himself to the level of Am Yisrael, he wanted to reduce Am Yisrael down to his level, or even lower.

This year’s 100 Most Notable Africans Leadership and Business Summit in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda has ended with key takeaways from the event where stakeholders highlighted the need for countries ...

Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on ...

In Deuteronomy, as Moses addresses Israel on the eve of entering the Promised Land, he makes regular mention of God’s ...