As the Jewish community prepares to celebrate the High Holy Days, a scholar of the Bible explains their history and why they ...
Today is the autumnal equinox, or better known as the first day of fall. Daylight hours have been decreasing since the summer solstice and will continue slowly decreasing until the winter solstice ...
When I heard ‘Pittsburgh’ I have always thought of smoke, dirt, chimneys, steel … but of late it has become glorified, ...
The following New Testament passage connects the Hebrew Bible to Jesus when he makes his first adult appearance, ready to ...
The first 2,000-year-old date seedling was named Methuselah (after the longest-lived person in the Bible) and is now ...
Research tells us that pleasant events do outnumber unpleasant events because our memories are more geared to remember ...
The author of prize-winning short fiction says the daily reality of a country at war has kept his darkest thoughts at bay.
He entered rabbinical school, he told me, having mastered “…only half of Shas”; years later, when he was teaching the laws of Gittin (Jewish divorce) at JTS, he lamented that he had to help students ...
Nate’s mom, Heather Kuhlman, 52, couldn’t — wouldn’t — believe her only child was gone. Heather grew up in the Catholic ...