The Biblical Book of Esther tells us to celebrate the defeat of Haman and his Jew hating followers: “…celebrate annually the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar as a time when Jews got ...

Rather than completely abandoning these ancient traditions, let’s reclaim, reinterpret and reshape them,” says Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein.

Christian Nationalism in action: “prayers and songs prioritised over a water catastrophe” claim opposition councillors ...

Moshe’s sister Miriam is punished for speaking critically about her brother. She is struck with tzara’at a skin condition the ...

It was their first intervention since being elected to the city council and has drawn condemnation ...

A week later the predicted water catastrophe arrived for people living in 22,000 properties in east Kent as their taps went ...

Opinion: Faith communities cannot retreat from politics when human dignity is at stake.

I recently had the privilege (yes, I know it was a privilege) to attend the opera at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, sitting in a gilded box for the performance of Verdi’s Nabucco, a retelling the story ...

Hot Springs' Congregation House of Israel marked its 150th anniversary this month, celebrating the milestone with a ...

Our liberation is at hand, but it'll take new ways of seeing and engaging our diverse national identity.

We live in the era of viral animals, from Larry the Cat, the permanent fixture at 10 Downing Street, to Moo Deng, the cute pygmy hippo in Thailand, and Punch, the lonely monkey whose inability to make ...

The First Baptist Church of Bellows Falls at 9 Church Street offers worship service at 10 a.m. every Sunday. In Matthew 5:38–48, Jesus calls us beyond retaliation and hatred into a deeper way of ...