I was always a bit confused about this. After all, Tanakh is the very cornerstone of our belief! What possible excuse could future rabbis have for not knowing it well?

Our little hill seems just the place described in Joshua 15:8, overlooking the Hinnom Valley, near Emek Refaim of today – And the border went up by the Valley of the Son of Hinnom to the ...

This is the fourth post in a series by Johnna Kaplan exploring aspects of Jewish life outside of her own experience. Last week I opened an Amazon box containing a Stone Edition Tanach. It is the ...

The Magerman Edition of the new Koren Tanakh is a project that stretched over more than a decade, and makes the study of Tanakh easier – and more pleasurable — than ever before. The five ...

With 30 minutes to swearing-in, people attending the inauguration for Polis, put out frantic calls to Denver’s Jewish community.

There was about a half hour to find a Tanakh for Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, the state's first Jewish governor, before he was sworn in for a second time this week.

In God’s Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible. By Michael Walzer Yale University Press, 256 pages, $28.00 In the early 1980s, the late Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin was slugged by many ...

A Jewish governor needed a Hebrew Bible to be sworn in. Jewish educators came to his rescue. “When looking for a Tanakh, there’s never one too far away,” a Polis spokeswoman said.

The stubbornly indefinable collective crafts its most purely song-oriented collection to date, guiding its sound toward the organic, refracted Americana of acts like Calexico or Pinetop Seven.

A side-by-side comparison of the 1985 edition of the JPS Tanakh and the 2023 gender-sensitive edition demonstrates slight changes in the English translation. (Design by Jackie Hajdenberg) ...

Tanakh's first full-length release is the kind of album that feels less like a collection of songs and more like a window into a meticulously rendered universe in miniature.

The Old Testament, the Tanakh, and the Hebrew Bible Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler show how multiple traditions arise when different people read the same text.