More than 20 years ago, I wrote my doctoral dissertation on Jewish responses to Darwinism. What I discovered is how little Judaism needed to adjust to accommodate biological evolution. Given the ...

Why does the Torah begin with the Genesis story? If it is a book of Law, ask the rabbis, why not start with the first commandment? On an individual level, perhaps it teaches us that just as God first ...

Whether on parchment or paper, the Torah continues to be the most intriguing and enchanting book (or scroll) ever composed, revered in the Bronze Age and Atomic Age alike. It surely is the only book ...

It is a spiritual treasure of Scripture, poetry, literature and history. It is the foundational sacred text of Judaism and is revered by Christians and Muslims as well. For thousands of years, Jews ...

In our Torah portion, Va-Yishlach, we have one of the most dramatic and vivid scenes in the Bible – Jacob wrestling with an angel. Except, in our Torah portion, it is never written that Jacob wrestled ...

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Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. A unique manuscript featuring a previously lost 15th-century commentary of Maimonides’s monumental work Mishneh Torah is ...