Bible

Confronting a troubling biblical narrative.

Everyone counts in a Jewish community.

How to restore the world to a single divine reality.

By and large it is not only the preference for beauty that has spilled into Western culture, but also the equation between beauty and goodness.

Assumptions in Leviticus 18 are in some cases abhorrent to contemporary sensibilities.

Behar affirms that the land belongs to God, and the land must be permitted to observe its Sabbaths, too.

All about the famous biblical dreamer who inspired a musical.

Even when times are tough, we still must give.

Leaving Egypt was a change. Leaving slavery is a transition.

Moses's brother helped lead the Israelites to freedom.

An attempt to reconcile two opposing views of nature.

Deuteronomy's legal treatment of slavery is more humane than the parallel laws in Exodus, and more practical than those in Leviticus.