This is not something I knew when I washed up on the banks of the Ganges at the age of twenty-three, looking for my own ...

Christian, Jewish and other religious congregations across America have been incorporating meditation practices — including ...

Turns out a Bar Mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall requires far more than just a reservation - and Erez Landau reveals ...

On most Monday nights, the sanctuary of All Saints Episcopal Church -- with its vaulted ceilings, stone arches and ...

The Messiah refers to an agent of God who helps bring about this transformation. The Jewish tradition teaches that this agent ...

The Rabbis in the Midrash, always sensitive to nuance, focus our attention on the enigmatic words: "G-d saw that Moses turned ...

Life lessons from a hawk, the story of the world’s ‘dirtiest supply chain’, David Bowie’s spiritual biography and more.

Valley Beit Midrash (VBM) invited Rabbi David Seidenberg to host its final class of 2025: “Bat Tashchit: How to Turn an ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world. Early Roman Empire depiction of a Freedman and Freedwoman, 30-15 BCE. British Museum, London, UK.

A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: All sages in Eretz Yisrael can collectively reinstate ...

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival technologies, such as stone tools. They may also have given us the secret to a ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...