they will write a new chapter in the story of the Jewish people—a story that begins in the Tanakh, and continues with them. Three Levels in Fulfilling the Commandment At the ceremony ...
“It was really such an honor to represent the Jewish people, to be asked to speak ... which really stem from the Tanakh. The foundational values of America are all from the Tanakh,” said ...
Spinoza, the 17th century Jewish philosopher and his proposed theory of God, are perhaps the most prominent of the thinkers ...
For what is Zionism if not, according to Sternfeld, “settler-colonialism”? As Sternfeld asserts—and we could assume teaches his students—the nakba (Arabic for “catastrophe”) that refers to the ...
was an act of profound Jewish faith. I struggled ... I thought of the line in the Tanakh: “… but God was not in the fire. And after the fire, a still small voice” (1 Kings 19.12).
It is hard for me to think of a greater distillation of who we are as a nation and the moment we are living through than the fact that we ...
Nowadays, stressing the shva na is an accepted and fairly common element in many siddurim. But when Ishei Yisrael appeared, it wasn’t common at all.
The truth will set us free. Jews have a threefold basis for saying who they are and these three entities are sacred to them: namely, the Land, the People, and the Torah or their Bible, the Tanach. It ...
With outgoing Gov. Roy Cooper looking on, the state’s first Jewish governor raised his right hand and placed his left on a historic Tanakh, or Hebrew bible, and swore to uphold the constitutions ...