Nahmanides’ comments on Deuteronomy are therefore particularly apt.

In a world that doesn't know how to rest, Shabbat can offer a haven that is more than simply dozing. In a society filled with ...

The obituaries will call him ‘billionaire founder of SlimFast.’ But we, first congregants of the Palm Beach Synagogue (1994) ...

Abraham founded the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace in 1989, a nonprofit aimed at peacebuilding between ...

The Jewish people mourned and wept, and then rose up and built the future. This is their unique strength and it came from Abraham, as we see in this week’s parsha.

When Sarah dies, the Bible depicts the intense effort Abraham makes to bury her in Israel. As Ibn Ezra notes, the purchase of a burial plot for her marks the beginning of the future Jewish state.

Abraham was shown that his test was not only about his own faith…. By this test, G-d created the means for Abraham’s descendants to survive all adversity.

Building the first new Jewish community in the Arab world in more than a century, the Jews of the UAE carry hopes for Muslim-Jewish reconciliation.

Bresheit/Genesis 22:13 states “And Abraham raised his eyes and saw- behold, a ram! – caught in the thicket by its horns; so Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as an offering ...

Abraham did not govern society but instead was the representative of God’s kingdom on earth.

Late-12th-century stained-glass windows from Canterbury show the fathers of Noah and Abraham wearing Jewish hats. How come?

Abraham is treated mythically by the sages of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, who cite his teachings that reinforce their individual theological vision but downplay the aspect of a flesh-and ...