The Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament, offers instructions about celebrating a Jubilee every 50 years. The Jubilee has roots in the Jewish practice of Sabbath rest every seven days ...

It appears that its’ underlying purpose is to transform the home into an altar, for the members of the household to serve, at ...

The Torah too is claimed by many Muslims to be filled with Tahrif; but Jews say that there are 70 different way of understanding God’s words and the differences are enlightening, and not falsifying.

His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and ...

With the dawn of a ceasefire in Gaza, the writer reflects on collections by Palestinian poets that don’t lose sight of love ...

One was a filmmaker, the other a scholarly adviser (who sometimes appeared on camera), and the two became close friends, ...