During and after the Babylonian exile, Jewish apocalyptic texts increasingly portrayed evil as personified in angelic beings opposed to divine order. Influences from Persian religious ideas and Second ...

(JTA) — The Bible is back in the news. In a Pentagon prayer service on April 15, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth quoted what ...

As people of God, Jews also face the question of how to make sense of an ancient and not always consistent tradition.

Hegseth had “shared a custom prayer … which was obviously inspired by dialogue in ‘Pulp Fiction.’” Two days later, the New York Times suggested that President Donald Trump was likely participating in ...

(JTA) — While many of his classmates at his Orthodox high school in Los Angeles spent the last year juggling school and ...

American participants who managed to arrive in the country during tenuous ceasefire with Iran drew extra praise from the ...

What distinguishes Torah Wrestling is its consistent, laser-focused attention to those pushed to the margins of the biblical ...

President Donald Trump and many of his conservative Christian supporters are participating in a marathon Bible reading event.

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. President Donald Trump plans to read a notable ...

In 2023, Texas passed a law aimed at improving K-12 students’ reading. In part, it called for a required reading list to spell out “at least one literary work to be taught in each grade level.” An ...

Launched on May 5, Radiant Mobile says it's capable of blocking 120 different content categories, including pornography, ...

The Bnei Menashe are a community of around 10,000 people from the Kuki, Mizo and Chin tribes of northeast India who believe they descend from one of the Bible's ten lost tribes.