The commandment of sanctifying the month is not merely a technical instruction for those who establish the calendar on how ...

The moon represents Klal Yisrael – there were fifteen generations until Shlomo Hamelech and then fifteen generations where we went down, culminating in the destruction of the Beis Hamikdash. The ...

The universe is impressive on two levels: the macro and the micro. Its sheer size, even of the relatively small amount we know, is massive. Within just our planet, the number and diversity of creation ...

Buck’s 1931 novel recounts: “There came out of the south one day a small slight cloud. The men of the village watched it, and ...

The Department of Theology and Religious Studies offers courses on many religions, including Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Catholicism, said Professor Jorge Aquino. Students get to choose.

The Canaanites were there before the Jews who escaped from Egypt, and the Philistines arrived. They all built cities with stone walls. They worked–bronze and copper in hot fires. They farmed and ...

Many words associated with religion have lost their meaning, and when synagogue and church leaders use them to inspire their ...

Noa Nierman, a 15-year-old sophomore at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, describes a recent incidence of antisemitic stereotypes she encountered, and how such hurtful stereotypes are often ...

If you have driven on Interstate 90 in recent weeks, you may have noticed striking pink and white billboards with messages that demand attention.

Human beings tend to imagine themselves as appearing in the midst of a greater history that is already in progress. In order ...

If God truly exists, and he expects people to take care of his creation (the natural world), then we should find the same proof of these truths in the holy books that are akin to the Bible for ...

This sparked the creation of Torah Tropical, a documentary that follows a family of Colombian converts to Orthodox Judaism – also known as judíos emergentes (“emerging Jews” in Spanish ...