Bible

Jewish woman elected president of Catholic Biblical Association of America - interview

She is also the first Jewish scholar to teach the New Testament at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome in 2019.

People attend a Holy Mass for the canonisation of Carlo Acutis, a British-born Italian boy who will become the first millennial to be made a Catholic saint, and Pier Giorgio Frassati, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, September 7, 2025
ADELHEID AND Edmond James de Rothschild visit British Mandate Palestine, 1914.

This week in Jewish history: Moses ascends Mount Sinai, a massacre shakes Hebron

SORCERERS, MAGICIANS, diviners: The Torah rejects them all.

Parashat Shoftim: Wholehearted – and well

People attend a Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the New Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City, on December 14, 2025.

Christian Zionists believe the West Bank is Bible land - opinion


Parashat Devarim: Always relevant

The Torah remains unchanged, yet its message can be expressed anew in the language, challenges, and circumstances of every generation.

SEVENTY LANGUAGES?

What the Bible says about endangered species - opinion

Scripture helps shape how I see the world, so I turned to it after the Trump Administration finalized a rule narrowing protections under the Endangered Species Act.

A softshell turtle

Parashat Matot-Masei: Don’t borrow identity

Public debate has become louder, more bitter, and less capable of self-correction because opinions have hardened into identities.

IT ALL comes back to the question of identity.

Parashat Matot-Masei: Slow and steady

The most important movement is not always what is visible externally, but what takes place within a person.

EVERY STATION on the slow journey  plays an indispensable role.

'Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land': America’s relationship with the Torah - review

The language America reaches for, at its best moments and its worst, has always been ours. Not borrowed. Ours. We wrote the story it keeps retelling. We are still here to see how it ends.

Rare medieval Sefardi Torah scroll from the late 13th or early 14th century on display at ANU, Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv.

Parashat Pinchas: A prophet for difficult times

The Three Weeks do not ask us to despair. They ask us to remember what we lost, why we lost it, and, above all, that God has never stopped remembering us.

Jerusalem Day at the Western Wall.

US Ambassador Mike Huckabee compares America-Israel alliance to marriage that cannot afford divorce

“When I hear people say, ‘Is it possible America and Israel will split apart and no longer enjoy this extraordinary partnership?’ I say, ‘No... we are not that stupid," Huckabee said.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee address a special Israeli-American Council (IAC) America 250 celebration in Israel, hosted by businesswoman and philanthropist Shari Arison.

Two republics, one covenant: Why the US-Israel alliance is bigger than politics - opinion

On America’s 250th anniversary, the US-Israel bond is more than an alliance – and more tested than ever

The 2020 Abraham Accords demonstrated what American and Israeli strength and innovation can produce when both are applied with confidence.
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Beyond the Headlines: A fallen soldier's widow remarries, stories of renewal inspire - opinion

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news.

The wedding of Miriam Shani and Ofek Dotan at the Kedar sheep farm near Ma'ale Adumim, June 2026.

What Rabbi Jonathan Sacks tried to teach us before October 7 - opinion

Sacks dedicated his life to teaching that covenant is stronger than politics, and that Jewish survival depends not on uniformity but on mutual responsibility.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.