In Illinois, Abraham Jonas, the first Jewish settler west of the Allegheny Mountains, served in the Illinois legislature with Lincoln and was, in Lincoln’s words, his “most valued friend.” ...

According to Rabbi Moses ben Maimon (1135-1205), a great legal scholar of Jewish Fiq, as well as the personal physician of Sultan Saladin of Egypt, Abraham shared his trials equally with Sarah or ...

And swarthy Jewish features to boot. Both he and Terah sport yellow cloaks emblematic of depravity. Of course, neither Abraham or Noah ... was in the latter years of his reign, and antagonism ...

All three groups were in the monotheist tradition, stemming from the pure monotheist, the ‘Friend of God,’ Abraham-the-Hebrew, whom I prefer to call the first ‘Islamic’ or the first ‘Muslim’ Hebrew, ...

Abraham is regarded by Jews as the first Patriarch of the Jewish people. This article examines his life, times and significance. The history of the Jewish people begins in Bronze Age times in the ...

Mohamed Kohia, professor, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Mo. In Islam, Prophet Abraham (Ibrahim) is labeled as the father of prophets. Among his children was the first born Ishmael (Ismael ...

Abraham was chosen for direct revelation and hundreds of years later God directly spoke to his children. That seminal moment at Sinai and not human inquiry is the foundation of Jewish belief.

Jewish men are circumcised as a symbol of ... Genesis 17 God promised to make Abraham the father of a great people and said that Abraham and his descendants must obey God. In return God would ...

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in front of the Tomb of the Patriarch, where Old Testament prophet Abraham and his son Isaac are thought to be buried. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in front of the Tomb of ...

triumphs and his “lurching” between critical thought to faith alone. “Everything in the Abraham story feels profoundly resonant with our Jewish lives,” Julius said. “It’s as if it’s ...