He quoted from “Ma Tovu” at the start of a quick visit meant to help quell a month of violence that has peaked in recent days. Blinken met with Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday and ...

Jewish liturgy can feel archaic or demanding, but its oldest words still have something to say to our most contemporary struggles, writes the host of the “Thoughts and Prayers” podcast. Several years ...

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is a time meant for celebration and self-reflection. The holiday, which begins this year at sundown on Friday and ends at nightfall on Sunday, is a joyous occasion ...

I have produced a recognizable body of scholarship on ancient Jewish and Christian prayers and hymns. During the formative period of biblical scholarship in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth ...

As I sit down to write this piece, my heart is both full and heavy. Full, because, as those of you who read last week’s column will know, I have just spent 10 days on an intergenerational pre-bar ...

(JTA) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken quoted from a Jewish prayer on arrival in Tel Aviv for a state visit on Monday, days after a deadly terror attack outside ...