A Personal Theological Essay,” in which Eisen describes what he believes about a God whom he acknowledges to be elusive, if ...

Arnold Eisen, former chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, writes a book facing the "questions of what I actually ...

“The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether” (Psalm 19:9).

When my friends asked, ‘Arnie, why is it that you have faith and we don’t?’ — I tried to figure out what experiences in my ...

So what are the chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe? A new insight focuses on the conditions created by the acceleration of the Universe’s expansion and the amount of stars formed. It ...

The Talmud (Yoma 85a-b) teaches us that if a person has made three separate attempts at reconciliation, and been rebuffed each time, that is sufficient for God to forgive, even if the other person ...

I grew up going to Hebrew school. To this day, I still do tutoring, and I do a lot of volunteering and activism within the ...

Rabbi Eli Broner, the confident, imaginative, broadly educated and experienced ninth grade dean at Shalhevet High School, ...

Wehner: Well, that leads into a new set of questions. The central argument of “The Widening of God’s Mercy” is that God often ...

For one thing, it’s a Hebrew language doc. For another, it’s extremely violent. “Obviously the content in this video is graphic,” says streaming media consultant Dan Rayburn. “So, you’re going to see ...

We see this, for example, when someone says, “so help me God” (blessing), or “I’ll be damned” (curse). It is interesting that the Hebrew word for swearing an oath is, “ sheba.” ...