“A sacred text is a text that haunts me all the time – but it doesn’t paralyze me.” – Rabbi David Hartman There is no dispute that Jews love to argue about our ancient texts. We crave the rigor of ...

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, credited with having made Jewish sacred texts accessible to the general public, died Friday in Jerusalem at the age of 83, to tributes from Israeli leaders. Steinsaltz devoted ...

A centuries-old mystery hidden in plain sight has finally come to light. In a modest prayer house in Israel, among community leaders and handwritten pages passed quietly from generation to generation, ...

In light of recent provocative acts of hatred, like the burning of the Quran and the threat of burning the Torah and Christian Bible, the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) organized a virtual global ...

AI has already started to transform the way society functions, from automating routine tasks to analysing a huge amount of ...

Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, sharply criticized today the use in Jewish schools of abridged versions of the Chumash, the first five books of Moses in the Old Testament. He ...

Howard Schwartz grew up devouring the myths of quarreling Roman gods and towering Greek Cyclopes, and as an adult he kept asking the question he first posed to his teachers as a young boy: Is there ...

Want to stump a professor? Just ask: “What’s the most important text on your syllabus?” The question posed a challenge to some who couldn’t bear to name just one. “It’s a tough one!” Samuel Hayim ...

Isaac Asimov’s iconic science fiction collection “I, Robot” tells the story of androids created at U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc. The androids range from “Robbie,” who is nonvocal, to “Stephen ...