Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. For many people, tarot cards belong to a vague realm of mystery, falling ...

Jesus is not a pure Greek name, as there is no "J" in Greek. Yashua's Greek name begins with an iota. The name is transliterated IESOUS and sounds like ee-ay-soos. Since the entire New Testament is ...

While cats are beloved pets by many, 77% of those interviewed agreed that cat numbers needed to be reduced. Israelis are heavily divided in their attitude toward the abundance of street cats roaming ...

Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. On a radiant spring morning in Jerusalem, a group of visitors walked into the Cultural and Educational Center at the ...

While the majority of immigrants choose to establish their lives in well-known hubs, some are forging a different path, opting to build their new lives in Israel off the beaten track. Israel is often ...

Parashat Va’etchanan includes one of the best-known sentences in the Torah, “Shema Yisrael, Hashem Eloheinu, Hashem Echad ” (Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One; Deuteronomy 6:4).

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Evan Loiterman’s “Ayin” displays an eye looking towards the sky superimposed over the clouds. ‘Ayin’ is the name of the Hebrew letter shown, and also the Hebrew word for ‘eye.’ Evan Loiterman and I ...

Hillel Smith, “Who Brings Forth Bread from the Land” (2016) (image courtesy Brandeis University Press) “A beautiful Hebrew letter, as I understand it, needs to have not only surface beauty but also an ...

Though the question “Where are you from?” has become somewhat fraught in these politically divisive times, it is a query even more existentially complicated for Brooklyn-based artist, writer, and ...

The religious language that lay dormant for millennia is now global, used by millions of people around the world—including in China. The Codex Sassoon, the oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, is ...