In our ASL translation, Jacob, who was hairless and smooth-skinned, has a name sign that can be back-translated literally to English as “smooth arm skin,” whereas his twin, Esau, who was notoriously ...

Proverbs are aphorisms that impart wisdom, advise good, and express deep, meaningful truths about the universe. Proverbs for ...

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This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. A version of ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the curation of a book collection.

Our age has all the hallmarks of the Kali Yuga, a dark age of materialism, alienation, injustice and moral decline. But there ...

In our lives, we are often like Goldilocks. We make it our life’s goal to be comfortable. We want everything to be just right ...

Rabbi Ari Berman of Teaneck, president of Yeshiva University in Manhattan, is among several religious leaders invited to the ...

Mike Braun was sworn in as the 52nd governor of Indiana Monday, kicking off a sixth term of Republican leadership in the ...

Recently, a hoopla arose on the social media concerning the Catholic Church, the life and death of Apostle Peter, etc. Here, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Mike Braun is officially Indiana's governor. The Republican was sworn in at a ceremony in Indianapolis on Monday morning. Braun took the oath on two Bibles, including his ...

Do they reject the view, which I think is correct, that numbers in the Torah frequently have other meanings than numerical? The number 40, for example, appears in the Bible over 150 times. Of these, ...