By accepting the Torah, the Jews themselves became a Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation (Shemos 19:6). However, Chazal tell us (Shabbat 88a) that their acceptance of the Torah was under duress.

The ninth weekly biblical reading in Exodus, Ki Tissa (30:11-34:35), tells us significant details about God, the Torah, and the Shabbat, revealing deep meaning and significance that should affect our ...

The Qur’an refers to this incident: “We raised the Mountain over you saying: Hold firm to what we have given you, and study its commandments; so that you may attain piety towards God, (as God lovers) ...

But on the other hand, how did it happen that good and genuine Jewish converts descended from Amalek and then managed to live as accepted righteous Jews in the town of Bnei Brak in the Holy Land ...

When He had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written ...

St. John Paul II greets Rabbi Elio Toaff in 1986 at Rome’s main synagogue, believed to be the oldest Jewish community in the ...

Joy is a very holy pursuit. And no day exemplifies this more than Purim.

So how did the Jews completely transform the change Quadas Kabir story and for what purpose? Who was the nefarious Jew who decided to appropriate glorious Palestinian history?

Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-nationals who had died in captivity.

"Rabbis remind us that we Jews know our capacity — for courage, for purpose, for action," writes a rabbi who trains and ...

In Forgotten, writers Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson explore the careless treatment and outright destruction of Palestinians ...