Many Yiddish writers came to L.A at the turn of the 20th century, believing the climate could cure ailments associated with ...

Before the Bible tells us God commanded Abraham to go to a distant, unfamiliar land, which would be where there’s now a ...

T his week the Torah introduces us to “Abraham our Father.” If Abraham is “our” father, the father of the entire Jewish people, he is my father. Having studied Abraham’s life for decades now, I have ...

In the third month (which we call Sivan) of the year 2448 from the creation of Adam – marking 500 years since the birth of Abraham – the nation of Israel passed from being “children of Noah” (like the ...

As the sum of the first five pentagonal numbers, 75 is a pyramidal number, a mathematical representation of Abram’s name: ...

In other words: “Leave me alone. I’ve got mine, and you’ve got yours, and that is all that really matters. Let us retreat ...

Numerous questions arise when we delve into the biblical portion concerning Abraham in Lekh Lekha, Genesis 12:1-17:27. One such question is the apparent mistake in narrating Abraham’s story, which ...

The filmmakers behind one of this year's most powerful documentaries details the urgency of documenting war crimes in Gaza.

Abraham, his son, becomes the first patriarch, followed by Isaac and then Jacob. A second son, Haran, is Sarah’s father (Rashi, 11:29). And Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah descend from Nachor ...

The effort was interfaith, so they would call themselves Operation Abraham in honour of the patriarch of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Some recent scenes of daily life in Mazar-i-Sharif ...