What is the New King James Version of the Bible and how does it differ from others? Here is a brief explanation of several ...

Slavery and the destruction of indigenous populations. Every time I dig into world history, I see it. The Armenian genocide.

Our sages remind us that even in a time of chaos, our world relies on values and principles. Our learning, prayer, and good ...

Meet Yael Kanarek. The artist behind Toratah, a gender-swapped rewrite of the Hebrew Bible, is coming to the Bay Area.

When you peel back Noah's Ark to the man himself, Noah may have been righteous only relative to the evil era in which he ...

Q: The first five books of the Bible, which Jews know as the Torah, are also called The Five Books of Moses. Where did the idea that Moses wrote these books come from? Coogan: In the Hebrew Bible ...

Simchat Torah arrives this week. Here's why North Jersey Jews consider it one of their happiest holidays — but also, this ...

Under the wedding canopy, the bride circles the groom seven times. Why seven — and why even do this at all? And is there ...

He quotes the Bible in Greek. JEWISH POPULATION IN ROME AND OSTIA There ... in order to read the laws, to read the Torah, the sacred book of Moses and to expound upon it. And any reader of the ...

Growing up in Argentina in an assimilated Jewish family, Jorge Singman never had a bar mitzvah, a rite of passage when Jewish ...

As their congregations prepare to celebrate Simchat Torah, local faith leaders reflect on the holiday in the wake of the Oct.

"We will dance because they cannot." The Torah is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. The Torah is Judaism's holiest text, containing its foundational laws and teachings. Simchat Torah is ...