A Jewish governor needed a Tanakh to be sworn in, Jewish educators came to his rescue With 30 minutes to swearing-in, people attending the inauguration for Polis, put out frantic calls to Denver ...

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 ...

The Jewish calendar reveals a five-day gap between Yom Kippur and the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot). During this period, the Tanakh teaches that the land is cleansed and prepared for Sukkot.

The Modern Jewish Canon By Ruth Wisse Free Press, 395 pages, $28. ... Now, more than a half-century since Ravitch’s bold but unanswered call for a new Tanakh, ...

Jews and Christians seek authority from the same book — the Bible (what Jews call “Tanakh” and Christians call the “Old Testament”).

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, ...

Learn all about Judaism with fun activities, interactive videos, learning resources, downloads and much more. ... The Jewish holy book is known as the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible.

The 135-year-old Jewish Publication Society is releasing its first new translation in four decades for the full Tanakh—the Hebrew acronym for the five books of Moses known as the Torah, Prophets ...

“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.

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 ...