In February of last year, The New York Times ran a piece titled “A Jewish Teacher Criticized Israel. She Was Fired.” The piece told the story of Jessie Sander, a young woman who was dismissed from a ...

In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the ...

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Governor-elect Josh Shapiro will be sworn in as Pennsylvania's 48th governor with his hand resting on a Bible carried by a U.S. Army soldier during World War II. On ...

(RNS) — Purchased by the American Friends of the ANU, Museum of the Jewish People, Codex Sassoon is one of the most expensive historical documents ever sold at auction. The purchase of the Codex ...

The Moshiach came to Madison Avenue this summer. All over a not particularly Jewish neighborhood, posters of the bearded, Rembrandtesque Rebbe Schneerson appeared, mucilaged to every light post and ...

Dr. Nelson Glueck, Bible professor at Hebrew Union College and lecturer on Biblical literature at the University of Cincinnati, announced on his return here from Palestine that excavations recently ...

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Exactly 200 years ago, on September 15, 1825, a self-governing Jewish colony was ceremonially dedicated on Grand Island in northern New York State, just a few miles downstream from Buffalo on the ...

I love the Bible. That’s why I’ve chosen to devote my career to reading and dissecting it, finding new ways to parse its texts and meanings, and teaching about it to classrooms full of undergraduates ...