Tag: <span>Bible</span>

UNESCO and Hebron

The M’arat Hamachpelah, the Cave of the Patriarchs.is the world’s most ancient Jewish site and the second holiest place for the Jewish people, after the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.. The cave and the adjoining field were purchased—at full market price—by our father, Abraham approximately  3700 years ago. Abraham agreed to …

Parshat Shlach, The “Mother of All” Pilot Trips Gone Bad

One of the big “misnomers” in Jewish Parshat Shavua, Torah Portion of the Week is calling this week’s parsha, Shlach-Send “The Sin of the Spies.” The very large and honorable delegation sent off to scout out, or more accurately to stake out the Holy Land weren’t called מרגלים miraglim, spies in the Biblical …

The Story of Ruth & Naomi is Not About “Loving the Stranger”

Maybe I should call this post: Jerusalem Post Promotes Intermarriage I got very aggravated on Shavuot after reading the first/main article in the Jerusalem Post’s Holiday Magazine,  LOVING THE STRANGER: THE TIMELESS MESSAGE OF THE STORY OF RUTH by Lee Caspi, because Caspi got it all wrong. On my first reading, …

Batsheva and King David, “Takes Two to Tango,” Said The Busdriver

One of the things so very different here in Israel is that here the bus drivers are “peers,” meaning “regular people,” the sort who can be neighbors, friends, fellow Tanach, Bible aficionados. There are Arab bus drivers, too, as I wrote about here, but they are the exceptions. Unlike the …