If you want a sense of the danger of prayer, just listen to Jeremiah: "You seduced me Lord, and I let myself be seduced" ( ...

Our liturgy is filled with pro forma confessions. These are not our sins, so we may say them out loud. We may even sing them ...

This piece originally appeared as a letter to the Hebrew College community. (JTA) — Like so many others, I spent much of last week searching for language to describe and respond to the new ...

David Magerman will redirect his past funding for the University of Pennsylvania to Israeli universities after cutting ties ...

The broadcast of the documentary 'Colón DNA' about the research by forensic expert José A. Lorente has sparked a great debate ...

What the words of ancient rabbis could and couldn’t teach me.

Academic and administrative faculty members at Hebrew University sent a letter to the administration in which they criticized the resignation of Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian after she ...

A tiny religious scroll over the door, tucked behind racks of colorful elastic. Letters in Hebrew fading over a storefront. A ...

His article "The Past as Destiny" will appear in the October issue of the Harvard Theological Review The Origins of the Hebrew Bible and Its Components The sacred books that make up the anthology ...

But even the diehards learned something new about Vientos the other day after he whacked a game-winning home run: He has Hebrew letters tattooed on his chest. It happened at home plate ...

When the Hebrew scriptures were translated into Greek ... Also, Latin did not use the letter "J" then, so the initial "I" was retained. In Medieval English, the letter "j" began to be used as ...

Preparations for the solemn Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, when the observant atone for their sins through fasting and prayer ...