I am telling you a story of Jacob and his decision to return to the promised land of his grandparents. The version being read in synagogues worldwide. Welcome to Vayeshev (And He Lived), this week’s ...

Judaism teaches that when it comes to serving God and fulfilling the commandments, the obligations never end at any stage of ...

The greatest scandal of particularity is that God has a Chosen People. He created a people for Himself — a marginal people, ...

A long-forgotten theory, unmentioned in the latest debate over Christopher Columbus’ Jewish origins, is that with the ...

One of the things I noticed about my grandchildren is that there are two reasons they want to hold my hand. The first is to demonstrate that they love me and want to be with me. We hold hands when we ...

At the birth of Christ, according to the Gospel of Luke, the first to visit the manger were simple shepherds. This figure is ...

The 12 days of Christmas tell of martyrdom, pain, and sacrifice as much as life, joy, and salvation. This is no accident.

Attorney and art historian David Lenefsky discusses the history of the American artists, Benjamin West and John Singleton ...

Nearly 50 years after immigrating to the United States, Moses Alexander was on his way to becoming the nation’s first ...

Deuteronomy starts with the people of Israel on the edge of the promised land with Moses giving ... “When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and ...

Every detail of Jesus’s birth was part of God’s plan before the foundations of the earth were set in place. So the promises and prophecies of his birth were detailed and specific.