One day after the Harris campaign announced that 33 “Orthodox rabbis” had endorsed her candidacy, more than 50 Orthodox rabbis signed the following letter, firmly backing President Trump.
To take an obvious example: although the Book of Revelation contains no explicit quotations from the Jewish Bible, it is a whole tissue of reminiscences and allusions. The text is so steeped in ...
The Unetaneh Tokef prayer, attributed to the 11th-century Rabbi Amnon of Mainz, recalled past persecutions, where Jewish identity and faith came under threat. These words seemed to evoke another era.
Donald Trump's fans and critics alike have compared him to some of history's most famous rulers: Cyrus the Great, Adolf Hitler, King David and more. But a celebrity pastor named Jonathan Cahn wants hi ...
A call by 1,000 writers to boycott Israeli cultural institutions surfaces something rotten in the republic of letters.
The text includes two Jewish books, the Torah, made up of the five books of Moses, and the Haftarot, a selection of stories and teachings from the Hebrew Bible. Left: An image of the leatherbound ...
Moreover, it is theologically complicated by rabbinic statements that emphasize the attenuated relationship of God to the Jewish people after the destruction of the Temple. Such statements give us ...
First European Bible Quiz to be held; winners will compete in the International Bible Quiz, to be held on Israel’s Independence Day in Jerusalem.
A centuries-old Jewish text that mysteriously ended up on an online marketplace is now returning home. In a press release last week, the Southern District of New York (SDNY) announced that a ...
Miriam Adelson with Donald Trump.JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty ImagesMiriam Adelson, 79, is the widow of casino magnate Sheldon ...
More than 1,000 sign letter protesting boycott of Jewish authors (JNS) More than 1,000 high-profile individuals from the literary and entertainment worlds have signed a letter condemning calls ...
21 No.1 (1983), pp.42-51, pg.50 [2] Jonathan Sacks, Essays on Ethics: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible (2016), pg.11 [3] Jonathan Sacks, Judaism’s Life Changing Ideas: A Weekly Reading of ...