The transition from family to something more begins when Jacob wrestles — physically and spiritually — and emerges ...

Explore the intricate layers of Jewish history and its connections to the broader narrative of world events and identities.

When it last awoke in 2014, Bardarbunga produced Iceland’s biggest eruption in more than 200 years, spewing out fountains of lava hundreds of feet high. Scientists in Iceland have their eyes on this ...

Sibling rivalry, a term popularized by David Levy in 1941, describes the aggressive response older siblings often have to a ...

So of course I was eager to see the new movie “Song Sung Blue,” a kind of jukebox tear-jerker loosely based on the story of a ...

Jewish tradition honors Joseph as Yosef HaTzaddik — Joseph the Righteous One — precisely because of his capacity to change: ...

Joseph’s magnanimity is exactly the reminder we need in our time of rampant moral grandstanding and eager denunciations.

There is no precise formula from which we can predict how things will work out in our lives, or in the way God will complete ...

Whatever we accomplish in this lifetime, in business or charity, it is the next generation that we must prepare to carry it ...

Adah: The wife of Esau, and the second woman mentioned in the Bible, after Eve. Julia: The name of a young Christian woman ...

However, much richer than the term “peace” are the Hebrew equivalent shalom and the Arabic/Persian equivalent salam. They ...

In addition to ancient verses, a first-century boat ‘brings the Gospel scenes to life’ at the Museum of the Bible.