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LOOK: Mysterious Hebrew Stone Unveiled

AP | DANIEL ESTRIN | Posted 04.30.2013 | Religion

JERUSALEM -- An ancient limestone tablet covered with a mysterious Hebrew text that features the archangel Gabriel is at the center of a new exhibit i...

Tower of Babble

Julie Gray | Posted 05.05.2013 | Travel
Julie Gray

Recently I began to study in Israel's famed Ulpan Hebrew immersion classes. There are those who say that Hebrew isn't that difficult to learn but they are liars.

Psalm 137 7-9 Understanding Violence in the Bible

Posted 01.25.2013 | Religion

The Bible comes up in the conversation on HuffPost Religion almost daily. One disturbing psalm is of particular interest commenting community. On a re...

Does Israel Have No Roots There in History?

Richard Elliott Friedman | Posted 12.13.2012 | Religion
Richard Elliott Friedman

On Sept. 24, the president of Iran informed reporters that Israel has "no roots there in history" in the Middle East. But one cannot understand the Jews or Israel if one displaces the first 1,000 years of their history.

WATCH: What You Need to Know About Fear

Tara Sophia Mohr | Posted 10.14.2012 | Healthy Living
Tara Sophia Mohr

In this video, I'm sharing my favorite teaching about fear, which comes from the late Rabbi Alan Lew. This simple, little-known idea about fear has been life-changing for the women and men I work with.

Jonah Lehrer And The Betrayal Of Trust In The Internet Age

Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman | Posted 10.02.2012 | Religion
Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman

In the Internet age, everything we say becomes a potential building block for others to use, and the only way to ensure a solid foundation based on trust is to be truthful. And as Jonah Lehrer learned, lies will topple your world.

Hebrew Literacy For Israelis In America

Rabbi Yonah Bookstein | Posted 08.04.2012 | Religion
Rabbi Yonah Bookstein

Can a bunch of children's books prevent Israelis from disappearing into the melting pot of American culture? A pioneering program is being launched nationwide seeking to do just that.

Open My Eyes That I May See Wonders In Your Torah

Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman | Posted 07.07.2012 | Religion
Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman

May the fires of Lag B'Omer reveal deeper and deeper levels of revelation and the commitment to spread the light of Torah until the "farthest reaches" of our inner soul and to those around us.

A German Town Mourns Its Holocaust Past: The DP Camp Story, Part 2

Bernard Starr | Posted 02.14.2012 | Home
Bernard Starr

A commissioned stained-glass window dedicated to the Holocaust portrays a gas chamber scene and bears a Star of David. To all who enter the church, it's a stark reminder of past atrocities

Astoria Characters: The Well-Engineered Family

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 01.28.2012 | New York
Nancy Ruhling

Jarda Nehybka never thought he'd have a wife and two tow-headed toddlers, not at this age, 69.

Israelis Never Say Sorry

Louie Dane | Posted 12.17.2011 | Home
Louie Dane

I learned Spanish in high school. Then when I was 15, I came to Israel for the first time. Spanish was useless on the streets of Jerusalem. All I wanted to do was be able to speak Hebrew.

Homeward Bound

David Suissa | Posted 10.16.2011 | World
David Suissa

I come to a land that calls me home Pulled in by the suns of August. On each visit, the eyes utter the same words: Electric. Messy. Miracle. This t...

Scholars Seeking To Correct 'Mistakes' In The Bible (

AP | By MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 10.12.2011 | Religion

JERUSALEM -- A dull-looking chart projected on the wall of a university office in Jerusalem displayed a revelation that would startle many readers of ...

Berkeley's Newest Urban Farm Is Totally Mobile

Anneli Rufus | Posted 09.11.2011 | San Francisco
Anneli Rufus

2011-07-06-urbanfarmberkeley.gifWhile all urban farms aim to heal the world, Berkeley's newest such enterprise is going at it from an environmental, educational, social-justice and spiritual angle.

Reviving Hebrew

Mira Sucharov | Posted 07.22.2011 | Religion
Mira Sucharov

There is much hand-wringing over Jewish continuity, but less attention paid to Jewish literacy. One factor that is especially neglected -- to our peril -- is the centrality of Hebrew language knowledge.

Divine Earth, Divine Mother

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Dr. Susan Corso

Lately I've been on a kick: I'm reading books set in the 1940s and earlier. They detail the stories of the lives of their times. I've recently noticed, though, that no one ever mentions the environment. It wasn't on their radar.

Brooklyn Bar Mitzvah Teen Pays it Forward All the way to Japan

Linda Cronin-Gross | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Linda Cronin-Gross

For those of you who do not know, every Bar or Bat Mitzvah child is obligated to undertake a project to do Tikkun Olam, Hebrew for "repairing the world."

American Midterm Candidates Pandered for Pro-Israel Money and Votes

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Linda Milazzo

Israel and the United States are not one country. Being pro-Israel should not wield so much power that it becomes a principal issue in American elections.

"Price Tag" Reprisals Against Palestinians in Hebron

Joseph Dana | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Joseph Dana

Since last week's fatal shooting of four settlers from the settlement of Beit Haggai, Palestinians in the area have been subjected to what the settlers call "price tag" reprisal attacks and repeated Israeli army incursions.

Israeli Scientists Warn: Arabic Is "Hard for the Brain"

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Shirin Sadeghi

BBC News Online's Health division decided this week to cover an obscure article in an obscure academic journal which covers the important subject of the Arabic versus Hebrew language.

Standing In Solidarity Against Islamophobia

Mary Ann West | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Mary Ann West

The current tide of anti-Muslim sentiment has increased the call of religious leaders and lay people to come out and show their support amid heightened instances of vocal and physical hate mongering.

The Bible and Human 'Dominion' Over Animals: Superiority or Responsibility?

Kristin M. Swenson, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Kristin M. Swenson, Ph.D.

Part of the story of God's creating the universe in seven days involves creating a cosmos that God made to be good. Human beings must maintain an order that allows each thing to be and do all of what it is and does, animals included.

Netanyahu In 2001: 'America Is A Thing You Can Move Very Easily'

Posted 05.25.2011 | World

A newly released video of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could add some additional strain to the sometimes tense relationship between him a...

No Jewish 'Lord Of The Rings' Ever?

Jewish Review of Books | Michael Weingrad | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Although it might seem unlikely that anyone would wonder whether the author of The Lord of the Rings was Jewish, the Nazis took no chances. When the p...

Muslims & Non-Muslims Hear about Terrorist Threat, Solutions at Harvard Club

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Jim Luce

An accomplished and diverse group of people -- Muslim and non-Muslim -- who share a common concern about growing extremism and the threat it poses to ...