Joy Ladin, a poet, creative non-fiction writer and nationally recognized thought leader on gender and Jewish identity, will ...

Alcoholics Anonymous helped make the Serenity Prayer famous, but it was written by one of the 20th century’s most influential ...

Not only do Moses’s kinsmen, the tribe of Levi, kill 3000 people, but to add insult to injury God also gets into the act and ...

Instead of following Rebecca’s path of consistent, protected rest, I maintain a winding and problematic relationship to sleep, and rest in general. I understand that rest is essential, but rest is the ...

1980's The River was Bruce Springsteen 's first record to top the charts - an especially remarkable feat for a double album.

Israel and Amalek are polar opposites. The concepts of Israel and Amalek, at any rate. Not all Jews live up to the concept of Israel, and not all Amalekites (at least in principle) are exemplars of ...

Speaking of which, there's also a wonderfully diverse spread of new music to sink into; but first, the results of last week's ...

Pieter Lastman’s 1614 painting captures the biblical moment when Abraham leaves everything behind to follow God’s call.

God chooses Bezalel, his assistant Oholiab, and every skilled craftsman that God has found (male or female) (Exodus 31:1-6). Skilled craftsmen, like God, are creative. They, like the Sabbath, are the ...

You might have come across the Sabbath mode feature on your fridge or oven. If you don't know what this setting does, we have ...

On Wednesday, Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, the Major Penitentiary, celebrated the traditional Mass beginning Lent at the ...

Origen says that Christ “did not perform the sign the devil sought, because he worked his signs to help those who saw them.” ...