Fox Entertainment has announced the cast and premiere date for “The Faithful,” a major new biblical event series that reimagines stories in the book of Genesis through the eyes of five Old Testament ...

This week and next we’ll address what might be called “Abraham and the Child Problem.” We’ll see the human solution … and the divine one. We saw last week the central point of Abraham’s (still, ...

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 112 (Sale info: For Sale). Hagar has recovered from the despondency caused by the thought that Ishmael is about to die of thirst and exhaustion. She has ...

A genocide here, a massacre there. Somewhere a theocrat falls, elsewhere a despot rises. Tent cities spring up like grass. Shantytowns and refugee camps sprout forth like fields of wheat. Who by ...

In Jewish tradition, the principle Ma’aseh Avot Siman LaBanim — “the deeds of the fathers are a sign for the children” — teaches that the stories of our patriarchs and matriarchs are more than ...

This piece was originally delivered as a sermon titled “The Cries of Isaac and Ishmael” at Central Synagogue on the first day of Rosh Hashanah in 2025. I have been a rabbi for 25 years, 20 of them at ...