The poet Walt Whitman, whose bicentenary is on May 31, found universal inspiration in all Americans, including Jews. As a young journalist and newspaper editor in March 1842, he wrote in “The New York ...

A century after the birth of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel — one of the most influential Jewish scholars, theologians, and civil rights activists of the 20th century — religious leaders, academics, and ...

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The ...

In a period of four centuries, ancient Israel produced a unique succession of spokesmen for God—the Hebrew prophets. These inspired preachers profoundly influenced the shape of Judaism and ...

In what initially appears to be a radical departure from his previous eight books, some of which were autobiographical accounts of Podhoretz's move from left to right, this effort deals with the ...

The third class in the adult-education series on "Reading the Hebrew Scriptures Again - For the First Time" will be held Sunday at St. Francis in the Foothills United Methodist Church. The focus of ...