(Qur’an 3:95) What makes Prophet Abraham, “whom God chose to be His friend” (Qur’an 4:125 & Isaiah 41:8) so special? For Jews and Christians Abraham is the first monotheist. But for ...

The Yale Jewish Lives series, which has volumes devoted to figures as diverse as Harry Houdini and Henrietta Szold, had a ...

Abraham was first known as Abram but when he followed God, he had his name changed. He lived with his family in Ur, believed to be in modern day Iraq. At that time, it is likely that the people of ...

Jews, who are only 0.2% of the world’s population and 1% of migrants, are by far the most likely religious group to have migrated, with 20% of Jews worldwide living outside their country of birth ...

So in a mythic kind of way we can say that Abraham recognizes God and that Abraham launches the process—biological and social and cultural—that will culminate in the people of Israel ...

Brethren, it’s the beginning of another month.   It’s time to ask; the popular question “ how far? “. Asking this question is ...

Led by God from Mesopotamia to the land of Canaan, Abraham entered into a covenant with the Lord that, once fulfilled, would see him father a great nation of kings.

Was God’s command for Abraham to sacrifice his son cruel? Does faith require embracing the unknowable, the inexplicable ...