“When looking for a Tanakh, there’s never one too far away,” a Polis spokeswoman said. (JTA) — A conference of Jewish educators became first responders of sorts when Colorado Gov. Jared Polis had an ...
Does one need to study Tanach? That’s a strange question. First of all, what does “need” mean? “Need” in the sense of must? In Israel, the factual answer is yes. It is obligatory to study Tanach in ...
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The year we made aliya, I was asked to speak at my son's school about what affected me the most about living in Israel. My love for studying Tanach (The Hebrew Bible), which began long before I ...
Robert Burns’s famous couplet came to mind as I read this book: “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us!” In this case, the “Power” is two Jewish scholars, Amy-Jill ...
One of the Tanach (Bible) courses I took as an undergraduate at the Jewish Theological Seminary was the book of Job. In the many years, decades, perhaps centuries in its transmission from the original ...
JTA — A new Biblical translation that eschews gendered pronouns for God is now available through Sefaria, the online library of Jewish texts, prompting backlash on social media from some who see the ...
For three months, Nahal reservists lived in a girl’s high school on kibbutz Haftez Haim in central Israel. Rabbi Zevik Harel, the school’s rabbi, wrote me as follows: “At the ceremony held when the ...