Shabbat Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech, in addition to being the final Shabbat of the year, marks two other endings as well: 1.

Already since the days of the Rishonim, it was noted that the custom is not to attach the reading of the Parashat Ki Tavo ...

Coogan: The Documentary Hypothesis is a theory to explain the many repetitions ... in what became the northern Kingdom of Israel. "In the Book of Deuteronomy there seems to be a new understanding ...

This tactic would seem to constitute a commentary on the state of the ... The application of herem is described in the Book of Deuteronomy: "...you must kill all the inhabitants of that town ...

My friend Joanne has been translating Deuteronomy word for word, a book she calls “the great poetic part of the Torah.” Joanne is 88 and the author of more than 20 novels. A former EMT, firefighter, ...

whose farewell address in the book of Deuteronomy we’ve been reading in synagogue these past weeks. Adam Kirsch’s must-read “On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice ...

When one feels the need to explain the message he is hoping to communicate ... it’s an interesting story anyway and may send you back to the first book of Samuel. Either way, I hope it ...

HGTV star Jenny Marrs has started blogging again in an effort to “process the world and the ways [she sees] God working in it ...

The five books of Pentateuch (Genesis-Deuteronomy), for example ... entire Pentateuch shows anomalies of style that are hard to explain if only one author is involved. By the nineteenth century ...

Moving from the first to the last book of the Torah – Deuteronomy – there is a speech ... Is there anything unique about sports that might explain how clothing profoundly affects performance?

According to rabbinic interpretations, Rosh Hashana commemorates God’s creation of humanity. Tradition has it that Rosh Hashana is a time when God judges humans, and especially “his people,” Israel.

Eight Holocaust survivors gathered in Toronto on Monday afternoon to restore a Torah scroll that was hidden in a Polish ...