Tanakh

Elections are over: The hard part comes when the ballots are counted the cameras are gone

By the time we read this week’s haftarah, Israelis will have gone to the polls to elect a new Knesset. After months of political arguments, accusations, and promises, the votes will have been cast.

The harder part comes when the ballots are counted the cameras are gone.
‘BRINGING BACK the optimism: Women are going out to vote, Oct. 27!’ reads a sign at a Tel Aviv park.

Parashat Vayera: What a vote cannot decide

The image shows a clear glass photography sphere (or lensball) placed on a wooden bridge, refracting an inverted view of the trees and sky.

Parashat Vayera: Bridging heaven and earth

AVRAHAM’S WILLINGNESS to stand alone would become a defining feature of our nation.

Parashat Lech Lecha: Having the courage to stand alone


This New York Jew left Tel Aviv hi-tech for teaching Tanach in Jerusalem

How did Rebecca Steiner, the hi-tech professional, wind up in Kadita, a small ecological village in central Galilee after over two years in Tel Aviv?

 Rebecca Steiner, 30 From New York to Safed, 2018

A Jewish governor needed a Tanakh to be sworn in, Jewish educators came to his rescue

With 30 minutes to swearing-in, people attending the inauguration for Polis, put out frantic calls to Denver’s Jewish community.

Jared Polis

Where is biblical Goliath buried? Perhaps where Jesus was crucified

No excavations have been carried out as of yet - the proposed area is quite literally within the confines of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

 David with the Head of Goliath

Jerusalem's Rabbi Benny Lau works to bring the Bible back to the people

Jerusalem Rabbi Benny Lau, scion of one of the finest rabbinic families in Israel, leads the 929 Tanach B’Yachad Bible study initiative.

 Rabbi Benny Lau: ‘To teach the Tanach, this is the goal I have set myself.’

Meet the rabbi behind a new transliterated Chumash for Romanians

Rabbi Sorin Rosen has been working for seven years trying to finish his transliterated version of the Chumash into Romanian for the Jewish community in Romania.

Bucharest, Romania

Herzog College: Bible study days inspire and connect on campus, online

Rabbi Dr. Yehuda Brandes: “Every profession has its annual conference, and the Yemei Iyun B’Tanach is where Tanach teachers come from all over the globe for inspiration and mentorship.”

 Part of the crowd at Herzog College’s Yemei Iyun.

Int'l Bible Contest for Youth held in person for 1st time since COVID-19

Chidon Ha’tanach, the International Bible Contest for Youth, takes place annually on Israel’s Independence Day.

 Contestants from around the world at the Jewish Agency building, meeting with Yaakov Hagoel.

Mishpatim: Murder hornets in Israel

Jewish history is all about patterns – what happened before is bound to happen again.

 A RADIO tracking device fitted by entomologists is seen on an Asian giant hornet before it led researchers to a colony in a tree near Blaine, Washington, in October.

The Magerman edition of the Koren Tanach is a landmark event

The beauty, felicity and scholarship inherent in Sacks’s rendering of the Torah into elegant modern English are apparent on every one of its 498 pages.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Independence Day: Gilad Abrahomov, 16, wins International Bible Quiz

As ever, the participants had to contend with the most detailed minutiae from the Bible, answering questions spanning the entire Biblical canon.

Gilad Abrahomov, 16, wins the 2021 International Bible Quiz for Youth on Israel's 73rd Independence Day, April 15, 2021.