Tanakh

'The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel': Groundbreaking way to explore the Book of Samuel - review

Koren’s new Samuel does more than explain the biblical text. Through archaeology, maps, manuscripts, and photography, it restores the physical world in which the story unfolded.

HANNAH PRESENTS her infant son Samuel to the high priest Eli, painted by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, c. 1665.
Taking in a Tanach lecture, Alon Shvut.

At Israel's biggest Bible study gathering, thousands turn to Tanakh for answers on politics

THREE GENERATIONS learning together: Brondie Levine with daughter Nechama Weiss and granddaughter Shira Levine.

Herzog College Bible festival connects ancient texts to modern Israel - preview

 IDF soldiers from the 146th Reserves Division begin operations in southern Lebanon.

Parashat Hukat haftarah: The argument that persists


Judaism confronts the modern intellect‏

Rabbi Amnon Bazak seeks to educate laity, suggest answers to theological tensions

MOUNT EBAL.

Confused about Judaism’s view on the afterlife? Watch ‘The Good Place’

The afterlife is not a major point of discussion in Jewish thought. Religious Jewish texts focus on the life one leads in this world — not the next one.

FAITH IN God allows us to see beyond the horizon

Innovative app brings biblical history together with modern information

A user can tap a location to bring up pictures, more information and current events taking place in the area.

Nahal Me‘arot Caves, Mount Carmel

Water from the well: The seduction of beauty

This week’s Torah portion, Toldot, presents one of the many stories in Genesis dealing with the beauty of a woman and the resulting danger.

ISAAC’S SERVANT tying a bracelet on Rebekah’s arm in this 1775 work by Anglo-American history painter Benjamin West

Parashat Pinhas: Personal hope versus national hope

A true leader puts the nation’s needs ahead of his own and the nation’s hopes ahead of his personal ones.

A shepherd keeps watch over his grazing sheep in the Romanian mountain

More than the question of ‘un-Jewishing’ someone

In Hebrew, we use the word “tragedia” to describe drama like Antigone, based on human suffering.

In front of the burial society rabbi (Howard Metz) and her sister (Devorah Jaffe), the bereaved daughter (Avital Macales) angrily tears up a cemetery map showing the proposed location of her mother’s grave in a non-Jewish area.

King Balak may have existed, TAU researchers find

The Mesha Stele may have just proven the existence of King Balak from the Book of Numbers in the Old Testament!

The Mesha Stele

Miami police sergeant fired for throwing out Tanakh on video

Sgt. Roberto Destephan, a 13-year veteran of the force, had been suspended for the last two months over the cellphone video. He was fired on Thursday, the Miami Herald reported.

Miami

The reward for a ‘becoming expression’

Even after the horrible act of Lot’s daughters, the small difference in their characters was expressed in the way these nations were later treated.

‘THE FLIGHT of Lot and His Family from Sodom’ by 17th-century Flemish painter Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens

I Need To See The Picture

The Jerusalem Post