The Bible contains a story of how a young Jewish woman named Esther became the Queen of Persia and saved the Jews from an ...

“One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my ...

The Western elites have told themselves, “Get rid of biblical religion, and we can have a better world, a world of conscience ...

Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a group of Judeans to return to the land of Israel under the leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah. With that act, he helped ...

The Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, Sarna has been a force in his ...

A newly-passed Texas law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms is facing a second interfaith legal challenge ...

These three key religious texts all offer justifications for defensive wars. But they also stress the importance of peace.

In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz showcased not only a troubling lack of geopolitical ...

He's also a professor of Bible studies and the academic dean at Detroit's Ecumenical Theological Seminary. "Too often," he ...

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, a reading analogous to the Christian reading ...

A Yiddish translation of “Arabian Nights” sounds like the set-up to a Borscht Belt joke. Yet, as a recent finalist for a ...

For centuries, the story of Samson (Shimshone in Hebrew) has been misunderstood, painted as a simple cautionary tale about ...