The progression of leadership in Genesis indicates God wants leaders who don’t just “follow orders” but who evaluate and even ...

Abraham’s Home Hospitality Parshat Vayera begins with Abraham and Sarah’s hospitality to the three messengers of God, when ...

The Torah uses the root צחק—laughter—seven times in this narrative. Abraham laughs when God promises him a son at 100. Sarah ...

Explore the Lesson of the Ram in this week's Torah portion. Understand the deep meanings behind Shabbat preparations and rest.

Meanwhile, for films, Guillermo del Toro’s years-in-the-making adaptation of “Frankenstein,” starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob ...

Their children were not their children ... Jesus grounds his argument by reinterpreting patriarchal authority itself. He invokes Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob not to endorse their social arrangements but ...

Sanders: Yes. It’s not only West Virginia. It’s state after state after state. The Democratic Party has abdicated — they’ve given up. They’re not fighting for the working class. What the Democratic ...

Gregory Fortuin’s Gospel meditation traces the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to its ancient roots in Abraham’s sons, Ishmael and Isaac. Their story, marked by division, exile, and eventual reunion, ...

When British forces under Benedict Arnold sailed up the James River to invade Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, then Governor, hesitated and then fled. Years later he returned to power and became president.

A taekwondo black belt and a long-distance runner, he’s someone who dared to take on an all-powerful Pranab Mukherjee — Union ...

As America marks 250 years since the Declaration, Jefferson’s words have taken on an aura of moral clarity about equality, ...

Mordechai's message to Esther, as recorded in the Scroll of Esther, remains the ultimate test and clarion call to any Jew, like Esther, who find themselves Court Jews who must decide if they will ...