When I grew up, I became a professor of Jewish studies. I now know that the Ner Tamid that so fascinated me as a child memorializes the seven-branched candelabra in the biblical tabernacle.

God chooses Bezalel, his assistant Oholiab, and every skilled craftsman that God has found (male or female) (Exodus 31:1-6). Skilled craftsmen, like God, are creative. They, like the Sabbath, are the ...

Salonga joins The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple ... tirelessly in the months before World War II to save endangered Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, orchestrating ...