Viewing through Aug. 5 at the GoggleWorks Schmidt Gallery are works on paper by Brooklyn artist Arielle Stein in an exhibit titled “Bewitching the Dybbuks.” About three dozen medium-scale paintings in ...
All 16 million Jews currently alive are, according to the Hebrew prophets, destined to return. The question is not whether ...
This article examines The Torah - what it is, how it is used and how it is constructed. The Torah is the first part of the Jewish bible. It is the central and most important document of Judaism and ...
Many of today’s printings of the Hebrew Bible come from the Second Rabbinic Bible, a text assembled in 16th-century Venice. The Jewish Publication Society uses the Leningrad Codex, which at ...
It can be tempting to respond to people’s harmful actions by denying their identity as Christians. We should resist this temptation. Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, ...
They may not be Big Boi and Andre 3000 (or even Matisyahu), but to the kids at Jewish day schools and camps who get to rap with Matt Bar and Ori Salzberg, these young Jewish educators are hip-hop ...
The Bible you are reading is an abridged version. Whether it is the Jewish Bible or the Catholic Bible or the Protestant Bible, and regardless of the language you are reading, the edition is an ...
Translating a Bible has always been risky, and today the language of gender often fires up public opinion. Now entering the lists of controversy is a “gender-sensitive” English translation of ...