Since Prophet Muhammad’s ancestry can be traced back to Prophet Ishmael the son of Prophet Abraham, doesn’t that make Prophet Muhammad himself part-Jewish? Most people say no, because Abraham, Isaac ...

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I remember learning in my yeshiva high school that the time of Jewish prophecy is dead. God’s intimate connection with his people had been severed because of their iniquity and never again can we ...

Through Israel’s returns home and national rebirth, we have already seen sparks of prophecy return. “Two men remained behind in the camp, the name of one was Eldad and the name of the second was Medad ...

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In 2015, archaeologists announced that they had discovered the bulla (a clay impression of a seal) of king Hezekiah, who ruled Judea in the late 8th and early 7th centuries B.C., at a site in ...

(RNS) — Black History Month is a fitting moment to recall a brief, remarkable friendship that permanently transformed America. The extraordinary bond that existed between the Rev. Martin Luther King ...

For nearly 30 centuries the tomb of the prophet Nahum was an important pilgrimage site for Jews in what is today Kurdish Iraq. But after the founding of Israel in 1948, all its Jewish caretakers began ...