Joshua A. Berman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Hebrew Bible at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is the author of Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought. The ...

If these are indeed the last days of Benjamin Netanyahu’s reign as Prime Minister of Israel, then one of his most notable parting gifts will have been the political rehabilitation of the strand of ...

What happens if we take off our religious lens and read the Torah as literature, without any prior assumptions about the nature of the God-character? SILVER SPRING, Md. (JTA) – “Turn it and turn it ...

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I am a platoon sergeant in the IDF. I am a religious Jew. I am a platoon sergeant in the IDF because I am a religious Jew. Recently, hundreds of thousands of haredim gathered in Jerusalem to protest ...

Reviewing Joshua Jacobson’s encyclopedic new “Chanting the Hebrew Bible” is akin to summarizing the Torah while standing on one foot. Cantillation — which comes from the Latin cantare, to sing –– is a ...

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How can a good God command—and engage in—unspeakable horrors? To take perhaps the most salient example from the Bible, readers both ancient and modern have been perplexed by the notion that God ...

(RNS) — 'Tablets Shattered' is a sweeping historical account of a fractured and contentious religious establishment — much of it hampered by its embrace of Zionism. (RNS) — In journalist Joshua Leifer ...