After ten days in Israel, I can sum up my impressions using two Semitic words, “Jannat” and “Jahannam,” heaven and hell. Both ...

throwing a body into Gehenna was considered the most humiliating punishment. New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman wrote in Time: "In the ancient world (whether Greek, Roman or Jewish), the worst ...

The Sunday lectionary reading for the Third Sunday before Lent in Year C is Luke 6.17–26, this gospel's version of the ...

The better question is: Does Israel, as a Jewish state, adequately protect the rights of all the individuals under its dominion? The answer is no. Consider this scenario: If Scotland legally ...

For Weisz-Gut, maintaining a Jewish presence in the town – even if tiny – is vital. As the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp nears, on January 27, a disturbing trend is emerging ...

Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images Fourteen U.S. Jewish groups announced they were leaving the social media platform X on Monday. A statement from the groups cited the rise of antisemitism ...

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“The experience of the Jewish Community, particularly within the United States and California, is rooted in the immigrant story. Many of our families came here as immigrants and refugees fleeing ...

The US State Department and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) sent Laura Margolis to Shanghai to help them move on to their next destination, but the war intervened, and she ended up ...

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