Let’s start at the very beginning. It is, as “>very good place to start. Let’s go to the biblical book of Genesis, or, more specifically, to the Hebrew text of it, known as B’reishit, and look at the ...

Ellen Frankel, author of the “JPS Illustrated Children’s Bible,” explains her decision to include one of the Torah’s most challenging stories. PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — When I was growing up, no one told ...

Here’s how to prove the Torah is true in about ten words: there are more than two million passionate Torah-observant Jews worldwide. The Torah describes in detail the miracles showered on the Jewish ...

Following comments made by Pope Francis during a teaching before a general audience at the Vatican, Israel's top Jewish leaders issued a letter expressing concern over potentially anti-Jewish comments ...

The Revised Jewish Publication Society edition of the Bible is the first major update to the JPS translation of the Tanakh in nearly 40 years. A new Biblical translation that eschews gendered pronouns ...

Hebrew scripture is a "message in a bottle," says Yoram Hazony, and in The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, he tries to decipher that message. Hazony's new book makes the case for a different reading ...