One of the most widely celebrated Jewish holidays is the festival of Passover, also known as the Feast of Unleavened Bread. In recent years, many churches also host a celebration...

In Eugene Ionesco’s play “Rhinoceros,” a human being turns into a rhinoceros. Before the play ends, all but one of the characters has undergone the same transformation. The key sentence...

As a Bible major, I became fascinated with the writings of the prophets. Many of them had shared attributes. They tended to be loners, they arose during times of social...

A number of years ago, one of my students asked me whether or not animals are endowed with a soul. The Hebrew word nefesh (soul) is used in many senses....

This year the Jewish festival of Hanukkah begins on the eve of Dec. 2. What both Hanukkah and Christmas have in common is the happiness and joy that each brings...

Like many Boomers, the Beatles provided the soundtrack to my teen and adult years. In 1966, Paul McCartney wrote a song in late 1966 (my first year of college) when...

I have received many questions regarding Jewish views of the afterlife. In the Five Books of Moses belief in the afterlife is little pronounced. Some Bible scholars have conjectured that...