If I call it Shalem, Abraham will protest. So I will name it Yerushalayim ... “On Nakba Day, the Palestinians suffer over the fact that they ignored their own Quran, which states that this land is the ...

Yosef S. Razin in an article in the Times of Israel titled “Avraham: Guilt and Faith in the Fiery Furnace” November 5, 2020 says: “Abraham in the fiery furnace, a well known story though it ...

Just as Isaac on the sacrificial altar on Mount Moriah prefigures ... as signified by their incorporation into his work. Jacob would eventually make his way back to his father’s home, but ...

Abraham’s near sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah prefigures the Father’s ... arranges a marriage for him with Rebekah. Of their marriage would come twins, Esau the firstborn and Jacob ...

For the Israelis, that history begins 3,000 years ago, when the Temple Mount—believed by many biblical scholars to be the mountain in the region of Moriah ... Abraham was poised to sacrifice Isaac.

Sarah wrongfully bent to this tradition when she convinced Abraham to start a family with their Egyptian slave, Hagar. This resulted in the birth of Ishmael, and the hostility between him and Isaac ..

The Yale Jewish Lives series, which has volumes devoted to figures as diverse as Harry Houdini and Henrietta Szold, had a conspicuous gap in its library: an account of the first Jewish life.