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Turning to the news of the broader world, any sense of predictability and confidence might leave us. There is little to find in the world that could make us feel more secure and trusting. War is ...

They were spoken in preparation to answer a higher calling, no matter the challenge; words confirming the trials, adversity and duty that personify an attempt to exemplify moral ideals.The post ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...

The presiding theory now is that Anatolian isn’t the daughter of Proto-Indo-European, but its sister, with both being the products of a much more ancient language which provided the bases for the ...

Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky z”l were murdered outside the Capital Jewish Museum, moments after leaving a diplomatic ...

The most heartbreaking group of enemies of Israel are our fellow Jews, among them even some Israeli Jews. Opinion.

In the book Conceived in Hope: The Struggles of Biblical Mothers in the Tapestry of Redemption, author Chana Tannenbaum ...

Thus, I agree with the Qur’anic religious principle of religious pluralism: lana dinuna walaka dinuka, (in Hebrew lanu dinu valakha dinkha) for us is our religion and for you is your religion. (Qur’an ...

We must become increasingly focused on what matters most to God — our loving one another — so that as we share that love, we will bring glory to God and share the love of Jesus with others. People ...

All three groups were in the monotheist tradition, stemming from the pure monotheist, the ‘Friend of God,’ Abraham-the-Hebrew, whom I prefer to call the first ‘Islamic’ or the first ‘Muslim’ Hebrew, ...

The tenth and final trial according to Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, was the binding of Isaac and the terrible discovery that while Abraham and Isaac were away, Sarah had died. Not being at Sarah’s side ...