The best of Judaism has the power to attract and inspire many Jews and they in turn can create a positive model society to inspire humanity” (208). The values of Tanakh provide us a guide to ...

A conference of Jewish educators became first responders of sorts when Colorado Gov. Jared Polis had an emergency: The Jewish Democrat was about to be sworn in for a second term and he couldn’t ...

Jews, Witches, and Sorcery: The Remarkable Tradition That Is Still Practiced Today. Copy to clipboard; Share on Facebook; ... By the reading of the Tanakh, some Jewitches this way come.

In the end, they settle on “Old Testament” when discussing Christian appropriation of the collection, “Tanakh” for Jewish usage, and “Hebrew Bible” when examining the texts in their original context.

The Jewish Tanakh ends by pointing to the ultimate return of the Jews to the land of Israel. Let’s go deeper. The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament starts with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, ...

I asked a Jewish friend who wasn’t in my program if she had one I could borrow for the day. She looked at me like I was asking if she had a hairbrush or a pen. Of course she did.

The Jewish holy book is known as the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible. The word Tanakh comes from the first letters of the three different parts of the book: The Torah (T) which is the first five books of ...

“Tanakh is the foundational text of the Jewish people, ... “Tanakh” is an acronym for the three components of the Hebrew Bible: the “five books of Moses,” Prophets and Writings.

I remember reading midrash as a child at my Schechter day school. While we explored the stories of the Tanakh through the eyes and words of the rabbis, my teachers emphasized the power of midrash as a ...

DENVER — When Democrat Jared Polis, Colorado's first Jewish governor, was sworn-in for a second term, he did so on a copy of the Hebrew bible called the Tanakh. But it wasn’t his Tanakh. Polis ...