To a young Jessica Sacks growing up in England, the country’s towering chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, was more than just a distant religious figure — he was an uncle. “He was very busy, so we didn’t get ...

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A fascinating collection of documents co-edited by Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and three Yeshiva University colleagues explores the genesis of the United States as the promised land, reliant upon Hebrew ...

At a recent press conference in Houston, a team of archaeologists announced a startling new find. They discovered an inscribed tablet from ancient Israel, well over 3,000 years old, that they say ...

Yael Kanarek’s “Toratah: The Artistry of Transformation,” is now on view at the Midtown Reform congregation. (New York Jewish Week) — What if the first book of the Hebrew Bible had a female God who ...

People read the Hebrew Bible for all sorts of things — spiritual guidance, literary inspiration, moral enlightenment. Assistant professor of Hebrew Bible Madadh Richey looks for monsters. She finds ...

The plainspoken title of “How Old Is the Hebrew Bible?” by Ronald Hendel and Jan Joosten (Yale University Press) poses a simple question, but the answer is a work of scholarship that offers an elegant ...

The oldest known near-complete Hebrew Bible will go on public display at the Jewish People's Museum on Thursday for a week, before being auctioned off in New York in May. The Codex Sassoon, named ...