The third book of the Torah is commonly known in English as Leviticus. The name comes from Greek and simply means “pertaining ...

There is one teaching in particular that is repeated more than any other through these first five books of the Hebrew Bible — ...

Invented in circa 3,200 BCE, writing came to replace oral traditions which, with the Jews, also meant that God – the reality ...

The inky wretch never teased me about anything, but he did think it was funny when I decided to read the Bible straight through. "It's not Jane Austen," he told me.

If Israel can be replaced, then covenant promises are ultimately conditional and transferable.

Every year, a raft of new haggadahs promise to enliven your Passover seder. And every year, I select some for a roundup of ...

Welcoming the stranger — and opening one’s home to guests at the seder — is a defining theme of Passover, the eight-day spring holiday known as the Festival of Freedom.

The first parsha of Vayikra (also called Vayikra) introduce the system of sacrifices, or korbanot. The Hebrew word for ...

A missile strike on the Peretz family’s Beit Shemesh home leads to miraculous survival and an outpouring of community support ...

Two Brevard theaters, the Henegar Center and Titusville Playhouse, are opening productions of "The Prince of Egypt" on the same night. The musical is based on the DreamWorks film and the biblical ...

Witnessing the birth of a cow and then watching her butchered for meat years later changed this rabbi’s relationship to ...

Public domain A few weeks ago, after catching a 5:37 a.m. Megillah reading courtesy of a kind-hearted and early-rising friend ...