While Barack and Mitt have nothing to learn, policy-wise, from The Other Son, Schneier’s ... (Joseph and Yacine are “Isaac and Ishmael, the children of Abraham,” as Yacine explicitly points ...

According to the Quran, the son involved in the sacrifice however, was Ishmael, not Isaac. Suskin: For Jews, Abraham’s perfect awe for God, demonstrated by his willingness to sacrifice his son ...

Abraham’s first son, Ishmael, became corrupted and began, at the age of fifteen, to worship idols like the Canaanites around him. When his brother Isaac was born, Ishmael would shoot arrows at ...

For through Isaac shall your seed be named, and I will also transform the son of the slave woman into a nation, for he is also your seed.”(21:12-13) So Abraham expels Hagar and Ishmael ...

With the opening Torah reading of Yom Kippur we come full circle following the stories about Abraham’s sacrifice of his two sons Ishmael and Isaac read on Rosh Hashana. The story of Aaron’s ...

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I retired from my secular career a year ago this month, and last fall — with all the other kids — I went back to school. In my case, I took two semesters of Biblical Hebrew, the language of the Old ...

According to the Quran, the son involved in the sacrifice however, was Ishmael, not Isaac. Suskin: For Jews, Abraham’s perfect awe for God, demonstrated by his willingness to sacrifice his son, ...