How Do Rabbis Choose Their Topics For High Holiday Sermons? What they don’t do is gather together and get a list of topics from on high. But about a month or so before the major holidays — like ...

Hailing from northern Idaho – the American frontier – Marilynne Robinson is among our most revered living novelists. Her debut, Housekeeping (1980), received critical acclaim, but it was the Pulitzer ...

Sarai lashed out at Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you!” (Genesis 16:5). She then turned her anger on Hagar, treating her harshly. What began as a plan to fix things only made everything worse ...