Viewing through Aug. 5 at the GoggleWorks Schmidt Gallery are works on paper by Brooklyn artist Arielle Stein in an exhibit titled “Bewitching the Dybbuks.” About three dozen medium-scale paintings in ...

This article argues that narratives about the loss and (potential) recovery of biblical texts can reveal a previously neglected genre of “biblical theology” in premodern Jewish sources—a religious ...

The text of the Hebrew Bible now being used descends from what is called the Masoretic text, which was assembled between the sixth and 10th centuries by Jewish scribes and scholars in present-day ...

Ehyeh is the verb ‘to be’ in its future tense singular form and means ‘I will/might/may become the one who I may/will/might become,’ indicating that Ehyeh is The God of Potentialities, The God of ...

The occurrence of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks), which is observed this year at the end of May and is associated in Jewish tradition with the giving of the Ten Commandments and of ...

Israel came out swinging at Swedish officials on Friday following the decision by Stockholm police to allow the Bible and Torah to be burned during a protest scheduled for this weekend outside the ...

They may not be Big Boi and Andre 3000 (or even Matisyahu), but to the kids at Jewish day schools and camps who get to rap with Matt Bar and Ori Salzberg, these young Jewish educators are hip-hop ...

A Torah worth an estimated $30,000 is missing after the car it was stashed in was stolen outside a Brooklyn synagogue Saturday night. According to the NYPD, which sent out a media alert with helpful ...

The Exodus story was a model of providential liberation and deliverance for Americans rebelling against Britain’s pharaonic ...

The Bible you are reading is an abridged version. Whether it is the Jewish Bible or the Catholic Bible or the Protestant Bible, and regardless of the language you are reading, the edition is an ...

The Americans, British and Arab states can debate whatever Mideast peace plan they want. But nothing can change this pre-eminent fact: Israel is entitled to the land it has, and has been for over ...