During the weeklong Sukkot holiday, which this year starts at sundown on Oct. 16 and runs through Oct. 23, Jews erect festive booths in keeping with a biblical commandment.

In Luke 10:27 and Mark 12:30, we notice that both passages use a fourfold description to explain how we are to love God: Heart, soul, strength, and mind. In the Old Testament we find a similar command ...

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Like many Jewish practices, the harvest festival of Sukkot largely takes place at home − meaning families can incorporate ...

Over the next two hours, the group prayed, sometimes quietly and sometimes very loudly, and sometimes in strings of syllables ...

The Torah clearly understands Jews to be first and foremost a people. When Abraham is first called to travel across the known ...

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ON May 25, 2020, George Floyd of Minneapolis repeatedly pleaded for reprieve. “I can’t breathe,” he groaned while police ...