This week the professor continues his series on the prophets of ancient Israel. Last week we considered the foundational prophet Amos. This week, his near contemporary in the eighth century B.C., the ...

“Blow the great shofar for our ultimate redemption, and raise a banner to gather our exiles, and gather us together from the four corners of the earth to our land. Blessed are You Hashem, who gathers ...

At its heart, Judaism is about love. If you find that claim surprising, you’re not alone. Many Christians and Jews—and, sadly, even some of my rabbinical students—view Christianity as a religion of ...

“Go! Marry a prostitute and beget children of prostitution! For the land is guilty of the most hideous kind of prostitution for forsaking YHWH.” — Hosea 1:2 The Inclusive Bible The prophet Hosea was ...

It is not every biblical book that opens with God commanding his prophet to go marry a prostitute. But this is exactly what the prophet Hosea is told to do at the outset of his biblical career. “The ...

We hear it in the air: “Information is power.” Some even say enviously, “Well, some lucky people are super-informed. But we are still getting all our information from the news.” Everywhere you look, ...

A 2017 video of a dad comforting his two-month-old son while the baby received his routine vaccinations garnered ...

“Brothers and sisters, if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. Let us therefore join our hearts together in prayer. . . .” With these words, I invite my ...