Abraham is an important figure in Christianity, Islam and Judaism. The story of Abraham can be found in the Book of Genesis - the first book in the Christian Bible and in the Torah of Judaism. Abraham ...

The builders, he explained, are nations focused on innovation, cooperation, and progress — the UAE, Bahrain, and possibly ...

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God then restated His Covenant by showing Abram the stars of the sky, if he could count them, then he would count the number of his descendants. No wonder God later changed his name from Abram ...

As the Jewish New Year begins later this month, I will join Jews in reflecting on beginnings. I was married earlier this year, and celebrate my birthday on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. Since ...

Yesterday, I wrote that God’s warning to Adam and Eve about eating the tree of knowledge—”for as soon as you eat of it, you shall die”—seemed like lax parenting by the Lord, since in fact Adam and Eve ...

I have set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.”  At first glance, ...

This week’s Torah portion, Shemot, begins with a list of those who made their way down to Egypt from Canaan. While the Torah goes into detail about their dramatic stories back home, we know very ...