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.” ...

allowing Abraham to reflect on his own actions and move forward. As a Conservative rabbi I too must wrestle in the thicket and believe my struggle is for a greater purpose for the Jewish people.

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 ...

Abraham miraculously survives, but his brother Haran, who vacillates between true belief in the one God and idol worship, dies in the flames. “The story is first recorded in mainstream Jewish ...

Both the Jewish Torah and the Muslim Quran speak ... hatred and by embracing the hope of our joint father Abraham to see the children of his two sons, Isaac and Ishmael at peace.

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 ...

a professor of Jewish studies at Harvard University. The three faiths’ divergent understandings of Abraham arose from their varying interpretations of his appearance in the book of Genesis in ...

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.