On this subject, the Document says two things. First it declares that “the Jewish reading of the Bible is a possible one, in continuity with the Jewish Scriptures of the Second Temple period ...
14) that DNA analysis has revealed that Columbus was a Sephardic Jew. Rumors of this have been floating around the Jewish world for a long time — long enough for us to wonder: Is it true?
A recent book on Jewish identity before and after Zionism shows the limitations of a progressive critique that doesn’t truly account for the experience of Palestinians. German Jewish refugees ...
Sirens sounded into the night on Friday in northern Israel as many Israelis began observing Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, one of the holiest days in the Jewish calendar. The Israeli military ...
Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year in Judaism and follows Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The name of the holiday translates from Hebrew to English as the Day of Atonement, and Jewish ...
As a Jewish Bible scholar, I know the phrases “murderous from the beginning” and “a liar and the father of lies” are not just any biblical references. Rather, they are part of arguably the ...
No, the United States government is not suing a Jewish book, though the title of the legal case might make it seem that way: “United States Of America v. In Re The Chamisa Humshe Torrah (Five Bo ...
WASHINGTON — A new exhibit at the Museum of the Bible displays one of the oldest Jewish books discovered in Afghanistan, which contains prayers and poems based on texts from the Old Testament and ...
Thomas Nelson promotes this Bible version as being faithful to the original Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic texts. The publisher also said the translation incorporates the most recent research in ...
In time for the Jewish New Year 5785, the Jewish Agency announced on Wednesday that the entire world’s population of Jewry increased by 100,000 over the last year. The Jewish population ...
I didn’t know the term until I married one. Even though my family is 100 percent Jewish and my brother took a DNA test to prove it, up to that point, I had heard only the female equivalent of ...