Parshat Chukat, with its silent years and quiet transformation, offers wisdom for this moment. Like the Israelites adjusting ...

Israel's theological narratives fuel the Gaza war, while Palestinians fight every day for truth, their rights and survival ...

Do you remember the movie “The Ten Commandments?” I was in high school when I first watched it. Since then, I have watched it ...

The people of Israel remained fragmented until the emergence of Moses. He began to reunite Israel under his leadership until ...

Like the Israelites, we can be paralyzed by fear, rather than boldly marching forward toward new possibilities.

Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?

Why is there a Jewish practice to bury prayer books and other texts that contain God's name? A rabbi offers the mystical answer.

"It is more important than ever to provide youth with literature that reflects their struggles, parallels their pain, and ...

The parsha identifies Korah, Dathan, Aviram and On as the principal rebels against the leadership of Moses and Aaron. Korach ...

These three key religious texts all offer justifications for defensive wars. But they also stress the importance of peace.

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

Reverend Jason Shelby I am a patriot. I am also a Christian, and that is what should always come first. We are all Children ...