Until his 70th birthday, Moriah had never been preoccupied with the passing of time or his own mortality. But as he entered ...

By reading the word וַיֵּצֵא in Jonah 4:5 as being in the pluperfect, Eliezer of Beaugency justifies Jonah’s objection to God’s forgiveness of Nineveh as occurring before God pardoned the inhabitants ...

New York officials announced that a 16-century book called the Di Gara text will be returned to its rightful owner after it ...

A professor of religious studies explores how the pig became the ultimate Jewish taboo — and an inadvertent marker of Jewish ...

In this article, we'll go through the top 10 longest names found in the Bible, and look at the verses where they appear, and ...

You probably know the parable of the Good Samaritan. But do you know that the Samaritans still exist in Israel and in the ...

Silent meditation is central to Buddhist and mindfulness practice, and many people initially feel discomfort sitting in silence, especially in the presence of other people. We are socialized to ...

It's called Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, and it lasts about 26 hours or until nightfall on Saturday. Yom Kippur comes at the end of the Jewish High Holy Days or "10 Days of Awe," ...

Sukkot begins on Oct. 16 and ends a week later on Oct. 23. Simchat Torah begins the next day. Here's where to celebrate ...