Yet from a traditional Jewish perspective, Islam does not constitute a new covenant equal to the Torah’s. Like Ishmael — a ...

It is the hardest passage of all, one that seems to defy understanding. Abraham and Sarah have waited years for a child. G-d has promised them repeatedly that they would have many descendants, as ...

And the proof of the pudding is that after these stories, God doesn’t speak to Abraham again, nor does Isaac, Ishmael, Hagar and Sarah. He is on his own completely.

Isaac was not the weakest link. Abraham the founder had many potential successors. There was his first-born son Ishmael, by Sarah’s maidservant Hagar. After Sara’s death Abraham fathered six ...

The moment Abraham is about to slaughter Isaac he is stopped, ... In Bereishit 21, when G-d instructs Abraham to obey Sarah by banishing Hagar and Ishmael it is Elohim who instructs Avraham: ...

In the story, God puts Abraham to the test, asking him to “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of ...

After the creation of the State of Israel, to be an Israeli parent, one must be more heroic and steadfast in their life work, more so than Abraham – or any previous generation in Jewish history.